Making and Using a Hand Powered Lathe

Making a using a simple hand operated wood turning lathe, i didnt add a treadle to make it a foot powered lathe on purpose as i want to limit the components parts needed to operate it, apart from the fact, it's a HAND POWERED lathe and midway between the historical bow lathe and bodgers pole lathe, it's only ever going to be used to turn small items suchs as bobbins, stool legs etc, not bowls and other larger items, the long screw will eventually be replaced by a length of threaded rod or i might braze a T-bar to the head to make tightening and releasing the centre a bit easier.

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[truckpipe]

My goodness your arm has to be ungodly tired after using this. Do you sometimes switch arms for pulling and shaping? Interesting simple concept. thanks

[maveraver]

@truckpipe nope no switching of the arms, i just make small things on it, tbh despite hgow it looks there is very litle physical exertion

[lamontroyal]

brilliant! thanks for that. Are those fishing rod handles you are making?

[maveraver]

@lamontroyal - thanks for the comment, i was making a stool leg, never made the stool to go with it though :-)

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

robinson crusoe tech.

[maveraver]

@MIGUEL2005LIMA - thats the one

[62rome]

amazing i'm gonna make one.

[WildPrimitiveSkills]

great vid

[dukedroklar2]

Never used a lathe b4 but couldn't you hook a pulley to one of the spike/spindles on the outside of the post for the rope to spin around, spinning the pulley which spins the spike and the dowel? The benefit would be to allow for a metal template with the desired contour to be pushed into the wood forming the final shape of the entire leg at the same time. Would also allow for easy precision of multiple legs exactly the same every time. Just a thought...

[MrBackpost]

Maveraver,

Could you give us all some specific measurments? Like distance between centers, heighth, etc. Also the tool rest.

[caribourain1]

This makes me wish I had three hands.

[caribourain1]

Boy I would implement that child labor again.  That looks very primitive. Not for me.

Cool though