Homemade Mini Wood Lathe

Building your own power tools is a specialized skill but with the right planning and patience you can diy everything in your workshop.

Homemade mini wood lathe. 3 in 1 homemade lathe machine. This homemade wood lathe is a cost effective project that works a lot better than it looks. Having a mini wood lathe around for small woodturning projects can come in very handy. First test homemade lathe machine.

Buying tools for a workshop can be a costly endeavor. The youtuber scrap wood city didnt let that stop him though. This awesome mini lathe can be made in just a few minutes. So instead i decided to make one.

Although i know other people have built lathes themselves after an enormous amount of looking on google i saw most homemade lathes involve casting and milling as well as using off the shelf components like chucks and tapers. Homemade metal lathe projects. I wanted a lathe because of all the stuff you can make with it and how fun they looked i knew i could get one for about 250 excluding tools but that was beyond my budget. Ive tried to turn very small things on it before but its a bit large and in all honesty its designed for turning rather large bits of wood so i set about looking for a cheap mini lathe they are quite expensive for what they are so then i thought about making one and after looking at a few homemade mini lathes i realised i had just about everything i needed to make a small lathe.

With this simple build we can make all kinds of. Being only a high s. Part 1 drill powered wooden lathe duration. I stumbled upon a youtube video by mat.

Build a wood lathe from scratch and start turning.