Spring Pole Lathe Plans

Spring pole lathe the first photo shows the entire lathe.

Spring pole lathe plans. Marked the width and clamped it in my vise. Of course the reason the lathe exists is because i felt. 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. The main body of the lathe consists of a pair of 2 x 6 beams that form the bed of the lathe that are bolted on either side of the 2 x 4 legs that raise the bed to the appropriate height.

From buying a woodland to making a chairwoodland craft by ben law. Spring pole lathe plan b my initial plans were to build a spring pole lathe out of reclaimed pine beams from an old barn that had blown down not far from me. That s a lot safer than a power lathe a. Introduction make your own treadle lathe.

I had built a couple of spring pole lathes for use in the shop and on the road at. After spending a significant amount of time squaring and sizing these timbers i reluctantly scrapped them after discovering significant bug damage and fearing that there might still be. Carriage bolts hold the bed beams and the legs together and keep the unit square. 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.

You ll see a few people using them on youtube and at craft fairs and things like that but my design of it being able to clamp onto a bench is one i haven t seen before. I had found a copy of the plan for roy s spring pole lathe on the internet. The lathe has been used as part of our traditional woodworking demonstrations and it never fails to draw a crowd. Cut the posts to 44 lengths.

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. Months later i would find the plans in his book. Beginning the project 1.

Well a spring pole lathe that is a lathe that works with a rope around the workpiece a pedal and a spring to pull the rope back up is a very old idea.