How to build a Lathe - Heavy Duty Workstand
A lathe needs to be securely mounted, especially if you are going to do some serious work with large out of balance pieces. There are a number of approaches to making a solid lathe stand, one is to weld up some steel channel or angle which is anchored to the floor, another is to fabricate a stand from timber and place sandbags or concrete blocks on a cross member under the lathe to give the thing some weight. My solution was to fabricate a stand for my Leady from two large boxes joined by hardwood cross members to which the lathe bed is bolted.
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