Harbor Freight's mini benchtop metal lathes are a powerful option for at-home machinists. Who manufactures Harbor Freight lathes, and how much do they cost?

With the exception of a few metal spikes here and there, everything is made out of lumber harvested from the forest around them. The lathe is designed to be a permanent structure on the homestead ...

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 ...