How To Make A Wood Lathe With A Grinder

Assemble all parts as on image.

How to make a wood lathe with a grinder. I used metals to make this angle grinder powered homemade lathe machine. The lathe tool needs to be pushed gently against the grinding wheel. Typical Carbide insert about 12 x 12 from Rockler.

Special care must be taken to ensure that the lathe tool is not in contact with the wheel for more than 10. Position the duplicator on a flat surface facing you and with the use of a square adjust the position of grinder until it is vertically aligned with the follower tip. Hello EveryoneToday I show you how to make a lathe machine.

I grabbed the piece that will make up the bottom shelf and use a jigsaw to cut out the four corners so that it could fit into place. Next I inserted the center divider that will divide the two cabinet of the workbench and glued it into place. Make sure the grinder comes with a dressing tool or buy one if not.

Mount the angle grinder so the cutter is 15mm forward the edge of the base. This is usually done with a diamond surface of some sort and results in you picking sand out of your teeth for a week. Temporarily install the follower and align it with the forward edge of the cutter.

Grinding the lathe tool against the grinder can be divided into two main parts. I first did a dry run to make sure it was good fit then used glue and screws to attach it. Usually a piece of 12 steel round or square notched out in the end to accept a small square round or triangular carbide cutter that is screwed onto the steel shaft and the far side of the shaft has a long wood handle.