Pole Lathe Design Plans

At this point the spring pole lathe is almost built.

Pole lathe design plans. Lathe details building the spring pole. The keyhole screw and lag bolt must be carefully located so that the top of the tool rest is horizontal and at the same height as the line between the fids. From buying a woodland to making a chairwoodland craft by ben law. However this one uses pre sawn and planed 3 x 2 and 4 x 2 inch wood from a diy store making construction much easier the design generally follows a plan available from the association of polelathe turners greenwood workers web site.

Marked the depth of the cuts with my rosewood cutting gauge that i got at woodcraft a while back. Marked the width and clamped it in my vise. Cut the posts to 44 lengths. Learn how to build your own pole lathe for turning wood harry rogers shows you through the whole process of making a height adjusting pole lathe including all the meaurements further resourcesmike abbot has a chapter on how to make a pole lathe in his book living wood.

This should give me 38 39 of leg room underneath to power. Beginning the project 1. For our design we attach two 8 long 2x3 boards at either end of our lathe. The reason for all the quotes around spring pole will be evident in a moment.

The basic pole lathe design goes back many hundreds of years and it would probably have been made entirely with hand tools. Our setup uses a bit of modern technology to help reduce the space needed to operate our pole lathe while maintaining the traditional aspect of it. At this point we have uprights mounted on a frame supports parallel crossbeams holding up a movable head and tail stock with steel centers. As a companion to my you tube videos on how to build a pole lathe i have decided to share some simple plans of the lathe that i make in the videos.

I want a bench vise.