[Makercise] has built a nice oil fired foundry already so it’s off to the next book, Gingery 2, is the metal lathe. The Gingery books and, really, most DIY books from that era are: not well ...

We recently researched more than 15 DIY-friendly wood lathes ... look for a wood lathe with a cast-iron base. Cast iron is a dense, very heavy metal that ensures the wood lathe remains stable ...

With a shaper and a lathe ... on building his own homemade shaper, and now it’s making chips. (YouTube, also embedded below.) First off, what exactly is a metal shaper? It’s not commonly ...

Follow the homemade foundry furnace plans outlined ... once told me that a metal lathe is the only machine in a shop that can duplicate itself. So, thinking about the old chicken soup recipe ...