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 build a ...

This experiment recreates Leonardo da Vinci’s treadle lathe to test how early engineers improved rotational power for machining. Unlike the traditional spring-driven pole lathe, which reciprocates and ...

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 impact on ...

Pole lathes were used to make a wide variety of objects such as buckets, bowls, bracelets and wheel spokes. Evidence suggests that lathe-turned wood vessels were made ...