lathes
Wood-turning machines
Lathes are machines that rotate a workpiece against a cutting tool to shape it symmetrically—typically wood or metal into cylindrical forms like table legs, bowls, or engine parts.
The lathe is among the oldest and most fundamental machine tools: The shop had three lathes running at once.
To lathe is to shape something on such a machine.
Rotating rod for thread
- chuckThrow carelessly or informally
- tailstockLathe component opposite headstock
- headstockTuning peg mounting point
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
bed · faceplate · collet · turret · dead-center · feed · speeds · CNC
spindle
Rotating rod for thread
- chuckThrow carelessly or informally
- tailstockLathe component opposite headstock
- headstockTuning peg mounting point
carriage · bed · faceplate · collet · turret · dead-center · feed · speeds · CNC · manual
turning
Act of rotating
- boringFailing to engage interest
- facingDirected toward something
- threadingPassing strand through opening
knurling · parting · grooving · tapping · carbide · coolant · machinist · tolerance · micrometer · caliper
bowl
Concave food container
- gougeConcave carving blade
- roughingUnnecessary physical contact foul
- woodturnerCraftsman shaping spinning timber
sanding · tenon · hollowing · green-wood · segmented · finial · baluster · sycamore · walnut · maple
- machineryengine, machinery, industrial machinery, motors, engines
- woodworkingwoodworking, wood, saw, hammer, drill
- Factory itemsassembly lines, workbenches, forklifts, conveyor belts, machinery
- motorized machinespower tools, power saws, blenders, fans, vacuums
- specialized equipmentmedical devices, lab equipment, surgical tools, scalpels, MRI machines
- Mechanical Engineeringmechanical engineer, design engineer, valves, motors, aerospace engineer
lathesmilling machines
Rotating cutters shape workpieces
saws · drill presses · grinders · planers · shapers
- lather upCover with foam
- in a latherExtremely agitated state
- lathering upProducing soap foam
- lathered upCovered in foam
- lath and plaster
- wood latheRotary tool for shaping timber
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