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Build Your Own Metal Lathe by David J. Gingery

Doesn't get any better than this.....,

April 11, 2004

By Waygat (Colorado United States)

One reviewer knocked this book for lack of color photos, "very" home-made look, 19th century approach, and requiring many hours of work, all true, and all total irrelevant, showing a total lack or understanding of the "spirit" of Gingery's books. Gingery's in his series and in the Lathe book, take you through many time honored, and nearly lost techniques of metal working. Just think of what you will learn, foundry work, metal casting, scrapping, drilling, machining. You actually can build a Lathe that is just as accurate as any comercial lathe on the market, it is (if properly built) a precision Lathe (.001) that you have made yourself. In fact the lathe will help to build itself, the only machine that can do that. If you are a very good scrounger you could make this for next to nothing. Sure you could go out and buy a small Mini-lathe, but then think of all the things you could learn by making it yourself. Not to mention, any accessory you can dream of, you can make yourself. My lathe is about 2/3 done, and I've learned more than I thought possible. Gingery's books are small and well written, very curt and to the point, but complete. All you need to know is there. Read carefully, he does not make a big deal of some of the most important parts, so skip a sentence and you'll miss a lot....

Interesting old-time approach to building stuff,

January 25, 2003

By Charles Hall (Raleigh, NC USA)

This one of six books by the author, each building upon the previous one. The text details how to build your own metal lathe with a minimum of ready-made parts, based primarily on aluminum castings you make yourself (as shown in Book 1 of the series). I did not build the lathe, but I did read this and his "How to Build A Milling Machine" book. The author takes the approach of using 19th century techniques and designs, showing how to emulate them with today's hardware store components. Sadly, the books lack any color photos. There are tons of drawings, and a couple of moderately clear black and white photos. While interesting, the machines seem to appear VERY home-made when complete. It is also clear that many, many hours are required in the construction. Although I did find the author's "can do" approach encouraging, I think you'd be better off saving your money for a ready-made lathe...

Yes, you can build an accurate lathe,

October 4, 1999

By Schultz (Owensboro, Kentucky)

Dave's books are fantastic. I have built the charcoal foundry, lathe, milling machine and electric furnace, and had a great time doing it. These books will teach you the common sense approach to metalworking and inspire you to do much more than you thought possible in the home shop.

Clear, witty instructions for building your own metal lathe,

September 19, 1999

By W. Richman I bought the whole series of Gingery metalworking books, and have learned an unbelievable amount from all of them. I've build the furnace (although mine is powered by propane) and have nearly completed the construction of the lathe. Gingery (pronounced with hard g's, by the way, as in "gruff") writes with a down-to-earth style that makes it feel like your uncle or grandfather is sitting in the room with you, sharing his wisdom. The pithy writing style gave me more than one good chuckle as Gingery describes some mistake he made and what he learned from it during the writing of the books. Highly recommended!

An excellent tutorial for building a working lathe.,

December 15, 1998

By Nick Janes (Tucson, AZ) As a follow up to the excellent book, "Build Your Own Charcoal Foundry", David Gingery shows you how to use the foundry developed in the previous book to build an inexpensive working lathe. His clear step by step instructions make it easy to follow.

Step by step Divid Gingery helps you build a lathe!,

September 5, 1998

By Kelly Robinson (Puyallup WA.) Step by step Mr.Gingery makes you feel you can do this, in fact it is the most complete "build a lathe book" I have ever read (yes theres more than one). There is a lot of casting involved so get the first book (the charcoal foundry) as they build on each other. The book is fairly simply writen and well illistrated.

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