Discover the detailed process of building a custom metal bending machine from scratch. Follow each step from preparing the rusty flywheel to machining brass and aluminum rollers, assembling components ...

It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this scratch-built, ...

This machining process looks simple at first, but the pattern slowly forming on the metal makes it incredibly satisfying to ...

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, this was [Anthony ...

Don't have a lathe you can work metal on? The next best thing is just watching it happen. Here's one cutting a spiral pattern into a workpiece, much like the texture on metal stairs used to increase ...