Homemade Lathe Pt. 1 - The headstock and base

Twitter: This is the first video in a series of building a homemade wood lathe out of recycled materials. This video covers the building process of the headstock and the base. The motor is reused from an ancient metal lathe that didn’t work, and the bearings are salvaged from a broken air compressor. The only things that I needed to purchase so far was a new v-belt, and a large bolt with some nuts, costing around 15-20 dollars.