When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between ... like a chair leg or spindle. With the help of calipers, a parting tool can carve these indicator grooves to a precise diameter ...

Some smaller machines, such as watchmaker’s lathes, can be stored in a cabinet ... Mass also damps vibrations when turning stock off-center or spinning up oddly-shaped things.

Ask anybody whose spent time standing in front of a mill or lathe and they’ll tell you that some operations can get tedious. When you need to turn down a stainless rod by 1/4″ in 0.030 ...