{"id":227,"date":"2012-09-30T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/make-your-own-treadle-lathe.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T22:10:14","slug":"make-your-own-treadle-lathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/make-your-own-treadle-lathe.html","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Treadle Lathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/make-your-own-treadle-lathe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/make-your-own-treadle-lathe.jpg\" alt=\"make your own treadle lathe\" width=\"227\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a>In the last twenty years or so since I built this foot-powered treadle lathe, I have received many requests for drawings or plans.<\/p>\n<p>The lathe has been used as part of our traditional woodworking demonstrations and it never fails to draw a crowd. Of course, the reason the lathe exists is because I felt a need for it as a tool.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the main considerations when designing the lathe were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Human powered &#8212; our solar energy system was pretty small at the time<\/li>\n<li>Size &#8212; it had to be less than 42&#8243; tall to fit into our old truck<\/li>\n<li>Compact &#8212; since it would sit in our small shop all the time, a small footprint was essential<\/li>\n<li>Portable &#8212; as in not too cumbersome or heavy<\/li>\n<li>Functional &#8212; it had to perform the basic duties of a light-duty lathe<\/li>\n<li>Adaptable &#8212; I had in mind several untraditional uses for the tool, like sanding&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manytracks.com\/lathe\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Find the manual here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/diy\/\" target=\"_self\">More do-it-yourself projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2012\/12\/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html\" target=\"_self\">How to make everything ourselves: open modular hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last twenty years or so since I built this foot-powered treadle lathe, I have received many requests for drawings or plans. The lathe has been used as part of our traditional woodworking demonstrations and it never fails to draw a crowd. Of course, the reason the lathe exists is because I felt a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,91,315,73,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}