Lathe Tool Geometry provides a description of single-point lathe tool angles, detailing the effect these angles have on a cutting operation. Tool angles have a significant impact on a cutting ...

Most professionals would put a polygon on the end of a turned part using a milling machine. But many a hobbyist doesn’t have ...

Lathes tools travel along a center line so we only need to worry about the amount ... perpendicular to the workpiece’s axis. The preferred tool for this operation is an 80-degree diamond insert, as it ...

This is a clever hack for a very specialized machine shop operation that most would assume you’d need a four-axis CNC to pull off. Lathes seem at first like rather single purpose machines ...