I've been meaning to post this for over a year now. So my apologies to Michele for taking so long to share this.

By now you've all probably come across Dave Gingery's book on building a metalworking lathe from scratch. Michele from Belgium seems to have done just that, but he didn't use Gingery's plans. He made his own!

Michele states that the dimensions for his lathe are a peak of 130mm (which I assume means a swing of 260mm?) with an overall bed length of 1000mm. That roughly translates to a 10" x 40" lathe.

But this isn't the only thing Michele has build from scratch. He also constructed a clockmaker's gear cutter, the plans for which I posted here last year.

Michele provides plenty of pictures and details for this lathe on his website, which can be found here (English translation) or here (original French). You can also find other versions of the plans for the lathe (DXF, DWG, etc) on Michele's site, as well as other projects that you might be interested in.

Oh, and this probably goes without saying, but his plans are in French. That shouldn't pose much of a problem, but I thought I'd mention it.

Thanks for sharing your plans Michele! I'm sorry it has taken me so long to post them.

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