March 2014 the 6th annual basic powder horn class at boulton historic site was a success. Building your own power tools is a specialized skill, but with the right planning and patience you can diy everything in your workshop. The multiple workholding options provided by a fourjaw lathe chuck sometimes called a scroll chuck make many turning operations so much easier than using a faceplate. I learned about pole lathes from the foxfire books. The lathe itself there are many types is often described as the first machine tool and its origins go back to the bronze age. January, 2020 i have posted free plans for making a simple, portable, benchtop. This utility lathe bench not only supports your lathe with unequaled stability but also provides plenty of storage space for accessories and other tools under a bench top of generous yet convenient dimensions. Giant wood lathemaking one welcome to the homesteading. I am definitely a beginner but it is possible to turn out a half way decent spindle with less than an hour experience. As an added attraction, we have installed a builtin air. A reciprocating lathe that uses a springy pole to return the treadle and drive cord to the start position for the power stroke.
Building a lathe from scratch continued drive center. Unfamiliar with woodworking or even having issues with particular plans. During the twenty years or so since i built this footpowered treadle lathe, i have received many requests for drawings or plans. Since then i have bilt others and found illustrations of many lathes dating back to medieval times all of which are documented in my book. Feet these pieces are basically feet, but act as brackets to secure the bed of the lathe to whatever. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but believe me when i tell you that although crooked, wavy lines look charmingly rustic, they dont get. The lathe bed, puppets headstock and tailstock and legs are based on mike abbotts pole lathe 2000 design with some minor customisations. This lathe incorporates the same principles as the lathe above, but uses a novel spring and pulley arrangement to return the treadle, instead of using the lever system of the lathe shown above. This lathe has a 4 long bed, and is 6 inches front to back across the bed. The other end of the cord reaches up to the end of a. The whole idea behind a spring pole lathe is that you would pinch a piece of wood between two points, wrap a cord around the wood, and pump down on a treadle while putting your cutting tool. Old school, preelectricity wood working is fascinating. Im a tinkerer at heart and have a passion for solving problems and figuring out how things work. Comprehensive plans and instructions for building a traditional pole lathe by pottinger, mark isbn.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Mark pottinger soft back, 48 pages, 25 black and white pictures. And relatives economic consumption spring perch lathes to make moderate legs and spindles and if youre exit to coat rack plans cover wood on the springpole lathe you might as well get the outdo unity adapted this plan. These plans are for a small milling attachment for your metal turning lathe. The major difference between this type, and the modern lathe is that the motion is reciprocal, rather than continuous circular motion. Im not looking to build a power wrapper yet, but i would like to build one that uses wheels to rotate the rod.
The earlier edition of my treadle lathe ebook was downloaded a lot and a special thanks to those of you who have sent along a contribution to help with this project or purchased the cd or print versions of the earlier book. This is the design outlined in mike abbotts book green woodworking working with wood the natural way. Steering that line is as much up to fate as it is up to planning but it worth bearing in. Roy underhill shows a different design for a spring pole lathe in the 2004 season of the woodwrights shop. Pole lathes are used to turn green wood, typically to make chair components, rounders bats and kitchen ware etc. Turning tools for the pole lathe are different to those used on a power lathe. Most recently, pww magazine august 2016 ran an article by roy on the building of the lathe. Lathe, spring pole tool chest howto the woodwright. Harry rogers shows you through the whole process of making a heightadjusting pole lathe, including all the meaurements. Woodworking how to how to make a bungee pole lathe. Bench top wood lathe woodworking lathe the english. My tools are also not like the average pole lathe turners and there are rather a lot of them. Rolling parts tray, part 1 making a small wheeled tray to store scrap and material under the lathe cabinet.
Not sure that i will stick to it religiously, but knowing one way of doing it will allow me to make a pole lathe with my own features and be confident that they will work. I used an angle grinder on the end of the spinning shaft to make the point i ground earlier perfectly centered. Home made rod wrapper posted in general rod building. Most of the time i gather my wood and quarter the clear wood, turn rough blanks, allow to cure then round out.
Lathe price is determined away the size of the machine lathe plans you build and the kinds of skilful detritus you have. The back and forth motion of a spring pole type lathe has been used well past the 1600s era that i study, and in many places is still in use today. Many of the images were compiled this site offers woodturning projects wood turning project plans woodturning tutorials and step aside step book of instructions for a. I put three 50pound bags of sand in the base for stability and hinged the door in order to be able to remove the bags of sand in case i ever needed to move it from the shop. The following photos and text describes the process of building this lathe. Iodin have been looking over lathe plans for a while and it was style prohibited of my league. November 78, 2014 the screwtip powder horn class is back.
Woodworking lathe, green woodworking, wood turning. Comprehensive plans and instructions for building a traditional pole lathe. Ive wanted to try lathe work for a while but a proper lathe would get too little work to make sense building, jennie alexander has a neat design for a benchtop lathe on her website but it uses a tail vise. I relied primarily on roubos discussion translated by don mcconnell as well as the dominy example at. Lathe chamfering tool a handy doubleended cutter for chamfering any edge on a part. I saw online that there is a tool called an egg lathe which helps you to make perfectly straight lines around the egg. Further resourcesmike abbot has a chapter on how to make a pole lathe in his book, living wood.
When designing this new lathe, i combed through numerous resources. It seems that there is no limit to my making interests. The advantage of this design is that the 2 x 12s provide stability both front to back, but also side to side. I determined the size of the stand based on the lathe. Tips fr using woodturning lathe viking books, viking art, viking shield, primitive. With just a few basic tools and these easytofollow steps, youll be turning out dazzling bowls in not time. He used 2 x 12 side pieces, and cut mortises in them that hold 2 x 6 pieces for the lathe bed. The finished wood lathe will wooden lathe plans look something like this. Giant wood lathemaking one discussion in shop talk started by cabe, mar 30, 2005. Woodworking homemade wood lathe plan video how to build. A trick for using lathe chuck soft jaws chances are you already have a wide selection of ideallysized spacers and an easytouse installation tool. Im looking forward to your next instructable where you. Make your own treadle lathe is a practical, step by step guide to building a footpowered lathe for light duty wood turning.
You can mount this milling attachment to the cross slide and do milling, surfacing, and keyway cutting. Spring pole lathe the design for this lathe is inspired by an old german design published by roy underhill in episode 5 of season 24 of the woodwrights shop. The lathe has been used as part of our traditional woodworking demonstrations and it never fails to draw a crowd. Comes with a simple list of contents and line drawings to identify each of the parts. You can build your own treadle lathe by following the well illustrated steps presented in this compact book. Wooden lathe plans for sale the wooden lathe uses wooden sleeve bearings with smooth steel shafts, eliminating the need to find bearings. There isnt a lot of detailing here and thats because its intended that you can adjust things to suit the materials you have to hand. When in 1975 i read herbert edlins seminal book traditional woodland crafts i discovered the craft of chair bodging, that is using the polelathe to turn the legs of windsor chairs from fresh cut beech trees. How to build a pole lathe easily permaculture magazine. Pdf spring pole lathe plans plans diy free build a. For lathe purposes that has 5 or 6 pages covering both the spring pole lathe the. Or if you have the time and money you could attend a class and learn to build this lathe directly from roy. Tool forging to book a forging day email me to arrange a date.
This current edition provides you with the instructions, photos and illustrations, and inspiration to build your own treadle lathe. This meant the top had to leave enough room to attach to the stand, provide a space to feed the belt for the motor that didnt interfere, and leave room for bolting the lathe. View lathes that were inspired by this book, as well as updates to the book. Said while tilting your head into the path of the descending spring pole.
Read bob inghams book how to make a treadle operated woodturning lathe international development. These plans are for a lathe workbench that organizes your tools and keeps your lathe area clean. The hch spring pole lathe project update november 2015. The use of a broad 2 chisel for smoothing is pretty unique. But snappy comebacks wont win anyone over to your side of the spring pole lathe. It worked for most smaller projects but i eventually wanted longer rails and more mass. The main body of the lathe consists of a pair of x beams that form the bed of the lathe that are bolted on either side of the x legs that raise. This quickly turned box is small enough to be created from your scrap pile, but elegant enough to hold your most precious possessions. While i am following his published design closely, i am going to use some modern machining to make the conical points run much more smoothly and with considerably less friction. They show the overall dimensions as what ive used and how things are laid out. I cobbled together a primitive polelathe in the attic of the farmhouse where i.
No tool is likewise big or too small for this board. We built the 17th century german design rediscovered by roy underhill. Plans for homemade lathe plans for lathe mini wood lathe by philipstephens007 1 398 572 views seven 47. I study medieval woodworking a lot, and ive always wanted to try out the medieval style lathe.
Introduction make your own treadle lathe why this small book exists in the last twenty years or so since i built this footpowered treadle lathe, i have received many requests for drawings or plans. I make these hook tools myself from tool steel and each one does a slightly different job. You can get instant access to over 16,000 woodworking projects in the next 5 minutes or less tedswoodworking has over 16,000 woodworking plans with stepby step instructions, photos and diagrams to make every project laughably easy. This is a very simple design that seems like it could be easily adapted to my bench. The main body of lathe has feet beneath it so you can hold it down in your vice. Give your midilathe a home with rocksolid support and plenty of storage space. Learn how to build your own pole lathe for turning wood. A special design of lathe is recommended for turning bowls, but as an experiment i tried adapting this lathe to turn small bowls. I have produced a detailed set of drawings for this lathe.
Mostly based on the design from shopnotes 73 the major difference being that a. I decided to build one and it turned out to be stable, quiet and works quite nicely. A pole lathe, also known as a springpole lathe, is a woodturning lathe that uses the elasticity within a long pole as a return spring for a treadle. Once you have one, youll wonder how you ever got by without it. Pole lathe kit green woodworking specialists woodsmith. Home made rod wrapper general rod building rod building. With limited funds to spend on a wood lathe i decided i would build a bowl turning lathe. After building this duplicator, youll be surprised at how easy it is to make a copy of any turning.
The lathe is very light and easy to put away when you are not using it. I wrote the book 4 years into my career running green wood courses and it was clearly a. When not working for make i can be found falling off my unicycle, running in adverse weather. In 1997, i looked at many different designs for homebuilt lathes while trying to decide if i wanted to buy or build a wood lathe. Invariably they have shorter handles because there is not so much of a control issue as there is with the high speed of a power lathe. June 2014 the second advanced horn class at the boulton historic site was a success.
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