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 ...

Instead of going the normal route – finding friends with machine tools or paying a machine shop, he improvised a rudimentary metal lathe. The finished couplers were concentric to 0.005″.

But when it comes to industrial machinery like metal lathes, there are other outlets that offer higher-end equipment than Harbor Freight. On the other hand, Harbor Freight's metal lathes don't ...