Adjust or shim the lathe’s tailstock-end feet a little bit and make another cut. A larger tail-end on the bar means the front-right corner of your ways is too low (the toolbit is getting closer ...

When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between the headstock (top) and the tailstock (bottom) with pointed attachments called centers. A drive center (aka a spur center ...

The tailstock seems to be the only non-automotive part on the machine. We’d love to see a video of it in action, but there are ample pictures on [Paul]’s website to suggest that the heavy ...