The trouble with building a business around selling low-margin widgets is that you have to find a way to make a lot of them to make it worth your while. And if the widget in question is ...

You know you’re in for a treat when you are told that a lathe which can reach a resolution of one micrometer (1×10 −6, a millionth of a meter, or 0.00004″ for people who love zeros) is ‘not hard to ...

CNC lathes open up a world of creative, precise, and functional projects for makers at every skill level. From simple keychains to intricate mechanical parts, these machines turn ideas into reality ...

The Sturges Turning Head by Dan Sturges of Sturges DesignWorks, Portland, Oreg., lets users produce prototypes, one-offs, custom machines, and devices that require CNC lathe parts. Basically, the ...

Editor's Note: An updated version of this information can be found here. What exactly is computer-numerical-controlled (CNC) machining? It’s a means to make parts by removing material via high-speed, ...

HSSC prevents chatter by automatically adjusting variables according to pre-set or custom-programmed parameters. Machine tool builder Okuma wants its customers to know they have the means to prevent ...

The CNC lathe that changed the history of CMZ. CMZ has been manufacturing machine tools since 1945 and has a team of over 500 people and five subsidiaries throughout Europe: France, Germany, Italy, ...

"Coordinates for the CNC Lathe" provides an overview of the coordinates used to program cutting operations on CNC lathes or turning centers. It introduces the systems of both Cartesian and polar ...

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Rownd tabletop CNC lathe since it showed up on Kickstarter last year, and I was psyched to get the chance to see it in person at CES in Las Vegas this week. In an era ...