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video Micro Wood-Lathe: How to make it with a SEWING MACHINE MOTOR
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A How-to-make video I made showing the process of building a micro wood-lathe with a sewing machine motor. It uses the foot treadle that came with the sewing machine as the on/off/speed adjustment.
This lathe is direct drive, so it's very precise.
Happy making!
-Calvin
Oh, the epoxy I used is JB WELD
A How-to-make video I made showing the process of building a micro wood-lathe with a sewing machine motor. It uses the foot treadle that came with the sewing machine as the on/off/speed adjustment.
This lathe is direct drive, so it's very precise.
Happy making!
-Calvin
Oh, the epoxy I used is JB WELD
I would really love to build one of these for myself for turning wooden bobbins for myself or even Whorls for making my own Hand Spindles. I'm a Spinner and Weaver and it will be fun to create my own turned spinning and weaving tools. I don't have $ 400 to afford a small lathe, but making one would be fun. Thank you for sharing your video!
-Nepheron
Also what lenth and width the base you glue the Sewing Machine Motor to?
I want to make a lathe with a capacity to turn pieces no larger than 4" in diameter and no longer than 12" in lengh.. I like spinning my own yarn and it will be fun to turn my own "Whorls" and "Shafts" for hand spindles.
I also would like to turn small bowls for support spindles, bobbins for my "Boat Shuttles" , Spinning Wheel or bobbin lace making. My other interests are textile crafts like weaving, knitting and crocheting.
I would also like to build the lathe adjustable.
I don't have the lathe anymore, so i don't know the exact dimensions. However, its easy to figure them out.
The dead center needs to be pretty much at a height that allows it to be inline with the motor's shaft, and the socket.
The length of the base is really not critical. Make it long enough that when you put your motor on it, and your dead center, there is enough space for the thing to want to turn.
If you will be turning things as large as 4", you will need a more powerful and perhaps larger electric motor. Go to a pawn shop or a thrift store and get an electric hand-drill. Those have more torque than a sewing machine motor.
Good luck!
-Nepheron
I think I had the same sewing machine - for 20 yrs in the bottom of the utility room :)
http://obscurecreationsbytyla.blogspot.com/p/means-to-ends.html
I was wondering if you could use it to make bowl shaped things, or round boxes. And I saw an Instructable on using the Dremel tool in a similar manner. So this same question applies to that.
Thanks!