Author name: Tabletop Machine Shop

Old CNC Lathe Teardown: Part 1

Tabletop Machine Shop / May 12, 2023

This is a video of me tearing my original mini CNC lathe down, both emotionally and literally. I’ve decided that I’m going to take a fresh swing at this project so that you can see the process and so I can have a better lathe at the end. This is the first of 2 or […]

CNC Lathe Machine

A tiny CNC Lathe spinning up to full speed!

Tabletop Machine Shop / November 5, 2022

I’ve been working on a scratchbuilt tiny CNC lathe for the past few months and I thought I would share this milestone. While I have advanced well past this at the present time, it was very exciting when I first got the spindle running using G Code – this is it maxing out around 7000RPM.