Pole Lathe Plans

I was lucky enough to get hold of a medium sized ash tree about 28 diameter maybe 10 foot long.

Pole lathe plans. It was entirely handmade. The plans are very clear and well drawn. 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. Jun 09 2016 above is the sketchup model for roy underhill s double spring pole lathe from the cover of the august 2016 issue of popular woodworking magazine.

The basic pole lathe design goes back many hundreds of years and it would probably have been made entirely with hand tools. As far as i m aware the only power tool involved was the chainsaw the city parks folks used to cut down the tree. From buying a woodland to making a chairwoodland craft by ben law. The new pole lathe.

Not sure that i will stick to it religiously but knowing one way of doing it will allow me to make a pole lathe with my own features and be confident that they will work. Marked the width and clamped it in my vise. Marked the depth of the cuts with my rosewood cutting gauge that i got at woodcraft a while back. 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.

A linchpin in the utility s expansion plans are storage. Spring pole lathe plans download and relatives economic consumption spring perch lathes to make moderate legs and spindles and if you re exit to coat rack plans cover wood on the springpole lathe you might as well get the outdo unity adapted this plan. Unless you lean forward too far said while tilting your head into the path of the descending spring pole but snappy comebacks won t win anyone over to your side of the spring pole lathe. Rapid build pole lathehow to make a pole lathe using readily available timber and making it very quickly.

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. The whole idea behind a spring pole lathe is that you would pinch a piece of wood between two points wrap a cord around the wood and pump down on a treadle while putting your cutting tool to the wood. I want a bench vise. My first pole lathe was a bit of a monstrosity.

I hope you guys find them useful and that they will help loads of you out there get turning. This should give me 38 39 of leg room underneath to power. In 237 easy steps.