When an off-the-shelf solution wasn’t enough, a custom lathe tool post was designed and built in-house. A practical look at problem-solving and shop-made tooling. Would you build or buy? Heavy snow ...

SNK's Prodigy GT-27 gang tool lathe features C-Axis spindle as standard, a polymer base and precision components for fast and accurate small parts turning. The nature of the design of the gang tool ...

It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this scratch-built, ...

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When the workshop needed a heavy‑duty lathe tool post, the solution was to build one from scratch. What challenges come with making your own powerful tool? Dramatic video shows the moment a US fighter ...