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Meldonmech:
Hi helder

                  There is a Yahoo Mini Lathe Group you can join on the net. New members have asked your questions many times, eg. which lathe should I buy?  The answers are all there.

                                                           Good luck   David

vtsteam:
Hi Helder, and welcome!!  :wave:

I'm going to put in a plug for some different books -- I built my own lathe from scratch, and I had no experience of machine work to start with. Here's my account of this process and where it eventually carried me.

http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,8191.0.html.

And the books I recommend are written by David Gingery. They are small paperbacks and not expensive. I recommend for starters, the build a charcoal furnace book, and the book on building a metal lathe, both by Gingery.

I think there's no better introduction to metal work than actually building a lathe from scratch, using all hand tools, learning scraping, pattern making, casting, etc. Other than a real apprenticeship -- and most of those start with hand tools, too. Or did.

I very much like Sparey's book as a reference work afterwards, and there are some fine projects in it, but the Gingery books are very down to earth with a single goal in mind, explained for the layman, and will directly result in a workable version of the most useful of all machine tools.

Brass_Machine:
Hi Helder,

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Plenty of videos and books out there to help you learn. That's what I did. You can do it!

Eric

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