What is a hand lathe?

Hand lathe is a woodworking appliance that rotates supplies that allows the craftsman to mow and create products with perfect radial symmetry. Examples of these products include baseball bats and candlestick holders. The term is generalized to any machine that does not use a computer to control with numerical coordinates of the movement of chisels or other tools. Most modern lathes for individual fans turn wooden supplies with electric engines with variable speed. Although there are lathes for metal processing and other material, most fans work with less demanding materials such as wood and bone. At both ends of the equipment, a piece of wood is secured; This defines the axis of rotation. The end of the end deck spins freely, while the end of the headstock is a spindle whose rotation can be controlled. Resting tools, usually on tracks that run parallel to rotating wood, allows the craftsman to hold a sharp chisel or groove with a stable hand as it removes the material along its length of the underdosa given shape. With grinding, drilling and other tasks supported by rotation, a lathe is also performed. On a centralized industrial scale, a manual lathe was usually operated by two people. The master would cut himself while the apprentice would manually run the spindle. There is evidence that such devices were used in ancient Egypt.

In the distributed craft scale, the manual lathe has been modified to be controlled by a single individual with different mechanisms that allow the spindle to be rotated. One of the early methods was to turn the string of the bow around the end of the spindle so that the return of the bow back and back corresponded to the spindles alternately. Improvement was the lathe of the spring field. The chain of the spindle was connected to the transmission of Toutly Bent Pol and under the feet. By drawing the pedal, thus turning the spindles, both hands were free to process the wood.

there are fans, especiallyEmci about the reproduction of antiques and historical reenactment, which build real hand lathes. Most fans buy a type powered by an electric motor. They are available as portable workbench models and as free -standing models.

There are several specialized types between available lathes of the hands as well as some remarkable common techniques. Most appliances are customizable to rotate the front panel, in which the wood is attached only to the spindle spindle and rather than cutting perpendicular to its rotation, forms such as cups and bowls, axially cut into rotation. Forms that are not evenly radially symmetrical can also be created by eccentric rotation-in-the-line assembly and one-piece processing with multiple axial rotations. Double ulcers can monitor and reproduce the main form that is not produced, unlike the way the door keys are produced.