Lathe and Chip former

[Julien]

Here’s how I did it:

Mini-lathe + shapeoko?

I’ve been daydreaming about getting a mini lathe to complement my shapeoko, and wondering if I could envision using the shapeoko to hold/move the cutter, while the mini-lathe would just spin the piece (i.e. , NOT managing a 4th axis, just leveraging the Y axis of the shapeoko to move the cutter along a given profile) I have been re-reading various threads on this forum but found only this very short one that corresponds exactly to that scenario. I have my eyes on this Proxxon mini-lathe: [i…

(machined a piece of aluminium that attaches to the body of the spindle)