How To Make A Simple Wood Turning Lathe

Cut out 2 more 6 ½ x 3 34 boards of poplar witch will be used to extend each leg.

How to make a simple wood turning lathe. Youll need to place your tool-bit onto the tool-rest turn the machine on and begin your woodturning. You can also use a burl which is a rounded tree growth if you know where to get one. Two headstock clampsmade from 34 X 5 12 X 7 hunks of plywoodhold that block to the bed on each side.

Place the cutting edge of the tool on the rest keeping clear of the rotating work piece check your grip and slowly begin easing it toward the work piece. To turn an old drill of yours into a wood lathe you will need wooden boards a bearing a few bolts and long sized nuts. Main Components Of A Wood Lathe.

In this video I show the techniques and tools needed to turn a simple wooden bowl. I used niangon wood for this project. There might be a need for a drill with a bit for making holes in wood as well.

Check out Pinterest for ideas and to see what is trendy nowadays. That thing is beefy and it works great. Once your lathe is up and running you can start wood turning immediately and begin making.

To Build Your Own Wood Lathe in 30 Minutes You Need. Most woodturning projects on the lathe are started by using a roughing gouge to create the basic shape whether a spindle bowl bottle stopper or nearly any other woodturning project. Now we can make the left side of the lathe aka the lathe head.

Tools and materials I proposeBandsa. See the image above for an example Left-handed woodturners will likely want to reverse the hands. Much of this wood lathe is built using scrap plywood and he even made wood gears for this project.