If you have never used a lathe start with a manul. Practice on the materials you intend on using.<BR><BR>Cheap CNC machines are fine for light work woth light being the operative word.

Wood-turning lathes are essential for creating any roughly cylindrical wooden object from pens to large table legs, and everything in between.

ALLIED MACHINE AND ENGINEERING, a manufacturer of holemaking and finishing cutting tools for metalcutting operations, introduced threaded lathe sleeves as a stocked-standard way to introduce coolant ...