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Back in 1920 when this nifty book was published, South Bend Lathe was only fourteen years old. Yet their lathes were being sold in large numbers all over the world.

Students were encouraged to build their own eight inch wood lathe in the school shop using, of course, a South Bend metal lathe to finish the factory-supplied castings. What you get here is page after page of dimensioned drawings and finishing instructions for each of the components that made up the lathe. Included are details of the jig used to bore the headstock and tailstock, the set up for boring the Morse taper in the spindle, a mandrel for machining both headstock bronze boxes simultaneously, and more.

Page 54 provides a drawing of a tool rest that could be built to turn the lathe into a metal cutting lathe. Unfortunately, detailed blueprints were available from South Bend and not available here in the book. But you could design your own based on Gingery designs or the numerous designs that have appeared in Model Engineer for the past hundred years.

Then you get some promotional material on South Bend products. I sure wish I could buy the 15" x 6' engine lathe for $505!

This wood lathe is built around robust metal lathe castings. It was deemed a wood lathe to keep the project simple enough for students. But the lessons you learn here are, no doubt, directly applicable to building metal lathes.

This is a fascinating book that machine builders and South Bend enthusiasts should have. Although I wished the lathe shown would have been a screw cutting lathe, I knew after just one quick thumb through that this should be reprinted.

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