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…

When you see the wood that has a grain running from headstock to tailstock, that’s the spindle. And, as the name suggests, you only use a spindle roughing gouge to turn out that square spindles round. Roughing gouge is the absolute easiest to learn to use properly among all other…

You’re probably here because you’re thinking about upgrading your current one to a good quality quick-change tool post (QCTP) on the market. But you may not know which is the best one and the right size for your lathe. Although the specifications that the manufacturer give iron ranges and it’s…

If you’re a beginning woodturner or just thinking of getting into the craft, you’ve probably heard about carbide woodturning tools. Now, what you’ve heard is hard to predict because the internet is full of contradicting and sometimes misleading information. So firstly, I’ll list down 9 of the best full-size carbide…

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…

The swing of a lathe is actually one of the most important parts of the device. And this is because the swing represents how big or small a workpiece can be used and worked with on a lathe. The lathe is basically used to rotate objects so that you can…