How To Make Your Own Wood Turning Lathe

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How to make your own wood turning lathe. For a wood lathe a 12 horsepower motor should be enough. 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. Its easier to clean it up now that after it gets hard.

Mine is a 10 pound 125 horsepower motor and it has never slowed down while I am turning something. I think I used a 30 minute epoxy to glue the handles together. Videos you watch may be added to the TVs watch history and.

You can get 30 minute epoxyyep just click on that link or check out your local big box store. Wood turning is fast becoming a popular hobby for woodworkers of all skill levels. Woodturnings popularity is on the rise and for good reason.

You can buy your own wood lathe or build your own. I will not go into excessive detail here because everyones motor setup will vary. How to Make Lathe Chuck.

4-jaw Lathe Chuck for Woodturn. Both my father and I have used vacuum cleaner motors to build both metal and wood turning lathes. All you need is the desire to have one the gumption to do so and the intestinal fortitude to say I.

The main thing is to make sure your motor can spin with both a lot of speed and a lot of power. Make sure you clamp up the handles nice and tight wipe off any excess epoxy that oozes out from the handles being squeezed together. Mount the turning blank on the lathe.