A new chapter in the workshop begins as one builder brings home a classic Swedish Blomqvist BSN 600 metal lathe. Once ...

The king of machine tools is the lathe, and if the king has a heart, it’s probably the leadscrew. That’s the bit that allows threading operations, arguably the most important job a lathe can tackle.

An electronic leadscrew is an increasingly popular project for small and mid-sized lathes. They do away with the need to swap gears in and out to achieve the proper ratio between spindle speed and ...

Skilled machinists in local factories start the process by selecting high-quality raw materials. Each step, from securing the metal on the lathe to precisely cutting the threads, requires attention to ...