Lathes

Bed

One of the principal parts of a machine tool, having accurately machined ways or bearing surfaces for supporting and aligning other parts of the machine.

Bench Lathe

A small lathe mounted on a bench or table.

Carriage

A principal part of a lathe that carries the cutting tool and consists of the saddle, compound rest. and apron.

Some useful links:

South Bend Lathe

lathes.co.uk

Proxxon professional tools for model builders

Atlas

Myford the ultimate model makers lathe, log on and dream

NS Machine An interesting place to search for equipment.

Birmingham Machine Tools For some industrial machine tools

See also: Lathe Tools.