Treadle Lathe – Show-n-Tell 1
Overview: The plan, the design choice, construction details, and various improvements.
As with most projects, this one was not built strictly to plan. I already have a huge bench, so did not include the bench details from Shepherd’s plan. The rest is upgrades to modern bearings and other simplifications because the local blacksmith left long ago.
Shepherd’s original plan can be had from Tools For Working Wood.
That is one nice lathe! Very well thought out.
October 29th, 2012 at 5:56 pmThe video cleared up how the tool rest works. On your first post I was scratching my head trying to figure out how it work. Nicely done video explaining the lathe. Now, when can we expect the first lathe project?
October 30th, 2012 at 5:16 amSo great to see the finished lathe Bob. It is a thing of beauty. Thanks for such a well organized series of posts on this. As you know there is a lot of info available out there but none of it is as comprehensive nor does it cite hardware sources.
November 1st, 2012 at 8:48 am