How To Make Your Own Wood Turning Lathe

Considering that electric motors commonly come at 2400 or 2800 RPM as well as the cheaper low speed ones finding the right motor is part of the fun of creation.

How to make your own wood turning lathe. Both my father and I have used vacuum cleaner motors to build both metal and wood turning lathes. Videos you watch may be added to the TVs watch history and. There are not a lot of parts needed to make a nice Wood Lathe Tool.

34 In Thread Size 1-18 Thread Connection Material of Construction Brass. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device. The main thing is to make sure your motor can spin with both a lot of speed and a lot of power.

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. For a wood lathe a 12 horsepower motor should be enough. Make sure you clamp up the handles nice and tight wipe off any excess epoxy that oozes out from the handles being squeezed together.

Nut Type Compression Tube Size 34 In Tube Outside Dia. In your tail stock put the live center. To begin with if your were searching for wood turning tools with carbide tips you might have a hard time finding them because these special tools are made with carbide inserts.

Woodturnings popularity is on the rise and for good reason. All you need is the desire to have one the gumption to do so and the intestinal fortitude to say I. Fixtures and Chucks for Woodturning clearly explains how to get the most from commercial chucks centers and faceplates.

I think I used a 30 minute epoxy to glue the handles together. You lathe should look like this. Mount the turning blank on the lathe.