In this woodworking video I use a woodturning lathe to turn a piece of aluminium into an ornate box with walnut lid. Inside Trump’s Oval Office as he called senators during Fox News breaks and ...

On the shortlist of dream tools for most metalworkers is a waterjet cutter, a CNC tool that uses insanely high-pressure water mixed with abrasive grit to blast sheet metal into intricate shapes.

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″.

Lathes are machines for turning and forming materials ... the wood by moving the chisels along a tool rest. A metal lathe is like the wood lathe in the type of shapes it can produce but for ...