Easy Lathe Projects

Last modified: March 17, 2024

Simple Lathe Projects

Things for you to make in your shop!

Easy Lathe Project Work Logs

Metallic cube with intricate circular cutouts.

Making a Turner's Cube

Cast iron metalworking vise with flat base, vertical jaws, and cylindrical handle.

Industrial Hobbies Mill CNC Conversion (includes Epoxy/Granite fill, One Shot Oiler, etc.

Silver hexagonal bolts with flat heads and coarse threads.

Make Your Own Transfer Screws

Collection of tools arranged on a gray workbench or table.

Button V-Block

A metal tool with a long handle and round, flat head on one end, featuring a cylindrical body with a threaded end, on a granite countertop.

Ball Bearing Chuck Key Spinner

Stainless steel collet chuck held in three-jaw CNC machine chuck.

Fitting a Collet Chuck to the Lathemaster 9×30 Lathe

A compound DRO (Digital Readout) system with digital display screen and two horizontal measurement bars.

A DRO for the Lathe Compound

Metal tailstock with spindle and handle.

A Tailstock Camlock for the Lathemaster 9×30 Lathe

Precision tools, including drill bits and end mills.

Pot Chucks for Lathe Workholding

Stainless steel table saw blade guard with curved back plate and rectangular front section, attached by two bolts on the left side.

12" Disc Sander

Lathe Tailstock Basics

A photograph of a vise with two stops on the jaws.

A Vise Stop for the Kurt Vise

Work in Progress

(Unfinished projects we've been fiddling with)

Mill Flood Enclosure

Belt Drive for the Industrial Hobbies Mill (design)

Tapping Arm (build)

Small Turner's Cubes (build)

Gang Tool Slide for 9×30 Lathe (design)

5-Axis CNC T&C Grinder (design)

4th Axis for the IH CNC Mill (design)

Bandsaw Miter Gage (build)

Elmer's Comber Rotary Engine Team Build

Elmer Verburg's Reversable Vertical Twin Wobbler

Fixture Plate

A green rounded rectangle with white text reading "TRY G-WIZARD FREE FOR 30-DAYS" on a white background.

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