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 ...

George Lailey's bowls were so popular that Harrods sold them. One even toured the world in a show about English crafts.This lathe tells of an ordinary Berkshire man whose work had a profound ...

Robin shows how to turn a length of sycamore into a simple bowl using a traditional pole lathe. This clip is from the series Paul Martin's Handmade Revolution. Whilst the use of a traditional pole ...