Got a mini-lathe for Christmas last year and needed something to put it on. Hundreds of spinning tops and mushrooms later, I’m pretty sure it was worth it. Here’s a couple other things from my lathe.

My first bow turned out pretty nice I think

Mini bat for one of the neighborhood kids

  • echo@lemmy.today
    6·
    1 day ago

    Self design or copied from existing plans? Do you consider it ‘done’ or are you still planning to add/modify?

    • dgdft@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Just sharing in case you find it useful, but these are the plans I used on my first workbench.

      Final product had a few tweaks but was mostly as-written (I made it four inches taller, used trim screws on the trim, and finished with polyurethane).

      • echo@lemmy.today
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Thanks… That looks pretty nice. You said that was your first one… What generation are you on, now? What motivated the change(s)?

        • dgdft@lemmy.world
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Thanks!

          I gave the workbench to a friend when I moved to a new place without a garage, but haven’t made another quite yet.

          Only brought up that it was my first one because I found the plans easy enough as a beginner :).

    • Emerica@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      18 hours ago

      I checked out a few designs and built my own from those ideas. Used some 3d software to build it there first, mainly so I could make sure I didn’t do anything stupid.

      Need to add a vice still but figure it’s mostly done, though I’m already running out of room now. Why? You have some ideas?

      • echo@lemmy.today
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Just curious at this time… my ‘workbench’ is just a centipede, currently. :) At some point I’ll need something more substantial.

        • Emerica@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          17 hours ago

          This was surprisingly easy. At the time I only had a drill and the lathe so I got Lowe’s to cut everything for me. Felt bad asking for that many cuts but they said it was cool.

          • echo@lemmy.today
            1·
            17 hours ago

            Nice… What kind of fasteners did you use? Any advice (do or don’t do) when I get around to building one? I have a nice contractor table saw and a sliding miter saw, so I can do any cuts I might need.

            • Emerica@lemmy.worldOP
              3·
              17 hours ago

              Truly, the only problem I ran into was imperfect cuts, but it sounds like you have the cutting bit covered. I did like the double 2x4 idea for the legs, made it easy to support the bottom shelf while still be sturdy.

              I used 2.5 inch deck screws for everything except attaching the top. Bought some 1 inch corner braces to attach it to the frame.

              Best of luck when you build yours!