and simple skills. The series of books start out with the charcoal foundry. [Makercise] has built a nice oil fired foundry already so it’s off to the next book, Gingery 2, is the metal lathe.

That’s the bit that allows threading operations, arguably the most important job a lathe can tackle. It’s a simple concept, really – the leadscrew is mechanically linked through gears to the ...

The emergence of 3D printed open-source lathes marks a significant milestone ... Imagine a world where creating your own machine tools is as simple as hitting ‘print’ on your 3D printer.