Stop wandering around the gates of mechanistic creativity and start giving life to your imagination, using the best mini metal lathes you can lay your hands on as a beginner machinist. First thing’s first! What “Is” a mini metal lathe, exactly? For starters, a metal lathe is a machining tool that you can use to …
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Once you brought your wood lathe into the shop, now it’s time to set it up properly. This is an important thing to consider before start working on the lathe if you want your machine to be highly responsive. Now, if your lathe is a 10″ or 8″ mini wood lathe, it’s pretty offhand to …
Back in early 2000, when I started woodturning, the internet wasn’t really a place where I could get all the information about wood lathes. But remember that was a long time ago. And frankly, I wasn’t that bothered by this back then. You can now pretty much have it all across the web but you …
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The first question that comes to our mind right after adding a professional wood lathe to the workshop is, “what woodturning tools/chisels should we use”? In this case, the best practice would be to start with tools that allow you to do most of the general tasks and then go for the premium tools for …
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When I started my journey, I had close to zero knowledge about buying a wood lathe. But fortunately, my first lathe was Rockler Mini- A great piece of kit and served me very well for a good few years. But as my skills improved and ambitions grew, I found it just didn’t have a powerful …
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