Lathe Stand for midi lathe Updated VideoPosted by Porter Womble on June 12th, 2021 Here I am squaring up the first board and cutting and measuring the first parts for the lathe stand. It was about 20 degrees in the shop that day, so I was having a lot of issues with tools and wood and it just being cold you Here. I am measuring and laying out the lines for the two by four notches that will go to hold the sides together and hold the top on you here. We have the two sides and two by fours all cut to size and ready to assemble. At this point, I'm having a lot of fun with the cold and cold wood, I was unable to drill a hole in the wood to insert a screw fast forward to the box being assembled. I had ended up pulling out the air compressor and framing nailer, to put it together - hey others, Patrick Murphy, from quarter-inch off and I'm doing an update to the latest and that I made I've gotten a lot of requests for that. So I'm gon na quickly go over the stand in more detail. My first video I lost the video camera and then didn't wasn't able to add the audio so I'll go over this in a little bit more detail. So what we have here basically, is the stand and I'm using two by ten material for the top, some two by fours here for the side and one one little piece of plywood. So I'll go over that but notice here so using two by ten material and for my lathe I made the top about 34 inches long and then or looking at here about 28 inches high, which is the right height for me for my late. So you can adjust the height of your lathe wherever it's comfortable for you, and your model number just adjust that down to get the height that you want now. Basically, the construction is this box below, and the purpose of this was really to put some sandbags or something to hold the weight to avoid vibration and I'll. Tell you what the two by ten material here I got no vibration at all on this thing, so I never need to fill it. So I you just use it for storage of stuff, but basically, as you can see, the construction here is you've got a side that is matched up for a 2 by 4 on both sides. So you have two sides with a 2x4 that connects them together and then on this on the wings here for stability, it's still a 2 by 10 and what I did was I notched it out. So there's a 2 by 10 rail here again to the length that you need for your lathe, and I basically notch these out here, as you can see about two inches off either side of the board, which leaves about five inches here and then I put leg Screws in the side here to bolt the wing into into the side here, so you have four wings: two side pieces, two end pieces and a top. Now felix furniture made my top or I made this length like I said comfortable for me, but if I ever needed to adjust it, I could just add another board in here and nail it in and and be good with that get some measurements here. It'S basically, I made these 19 tall on the outside for the wings and about 13 13 and a half on the side. So I just did a diagonal cut there. Just uh, you know make it look pretty when you're staying at the lay, then you don't hit it with your knees at all. It'S a comfortable and a height. The one thing I wish I would have done is made the bottom here. Here'S the bottom piece of plywood just to add for storage, which is just nailed on to the bottom, made a bigger gap here for my feet. So when I'm standing at the lathe, it becomes more comfortable here. If I had more room for my feet, that's the one. The one change that I would make in this is to bring that box bottom up taller. Now. I also did for these wings. As you can see, I used we used pocket holes here. Just to add some additional support to get the wings to connect to those side pieces but also, like I said, there's there's a leg screws on either side of here and again it's a comfortable height doesn't take that long to make. I think I use two 8 foot 2 by tens to small pieces of 2x4, so 1, 2 by 4, and then a scrap piece of plywood that I put on the bottom. Just to again, if you have any vibrations you can put some weight down there to you know, make it more stable. So that's my update. I haven't turned in a while, so I haven't used this in a while, but I was frequently getting questions on on how I made this in what I did again. It'S fairly easy just sidepiece notch it out for the two by fours. Put a stringer across put a top on it. I did that first just to make a little box, and then you can make the two side pieces same length, just notch it out to inches so that you can put the leg bolts in here and then put the wings on. I also had this against not standing this way I had it turned around flat against a wall, so I put my dust collection back in placing these wings against the wall also help for stability, so I hope that helps until next time. Thank you.Like it? Share it! |