Considered a specialty power tool, a wood lathe is typically found in a woodturner’s or a furniture-maker’s shop. It’s used to create cylindrical wooden items that are symmetrical around a ...

You know you’re in for a treat when you are told that a lathe which can reach a resolution of one micrometer (1×10 −6, a millionth of a meter, or 0.00004″ for people who love zeros) is ...

At the 2009 Ghana Maker Faire, [Pat Delany] met a young carpentry student that saved for three months to buy a cheap Chinese wood plane. He was confounded by this distribution of resources, so ...