When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between the headstock (top) and the tailstock (bottom) with pointed attachments called centers. A drive center (aka a spur center ...

We’ve seen quite a few scratch built lathes here at Hackaday, but none quite like the handcrafted pole lathe put together by [Jon Townsend] and his band of Merry Men as part of their effort to ...

or need a dismountable drive. As the video shows, you can definitely make them on the lathe. But how the heck does this work? It seems like magic. Lets start by imagining we disengage and lock the ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe believed to have been used to ... The city government here mounted the fund-raising drive in August and by Sept. 30 had raised a whopping 269.48 ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.