Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we ...

Listener Paul Hass of Boise, Idaho, tells us about a massive log-trimming machine, and what it sounds like. The machine, a type of enormous lathe, produces long, smoothly shaped pieces of wood up to ...