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product_id: 255288151
title: "Metal Lathe for Home Machinists"
price: "NT$1883"
currency: TWD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 5
url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/255288151-metal-lathe-for-home-machinists
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region: Taiwan
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# Precision & concentricity focus 12 step-by-step projects Practical hands-on skills Metal Lathe for Home Machinists

**Price:** NT$1883
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🛠️ Turn your passion into precision with every page!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Metal Lathe for Home Machinists
- **How much does it cost?** NT$1883 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/255288151-metal-lathe-for-home-machinists)

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- Customers looking for quality international products

## Why This Product

- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Progressive Skill Building:** Projects increase in complexity, sharpening precision and technique
- • **Unlock Advanced Techniques:** Even experienced lathe users will discover new methods to elevate their craft
- • **Visual & Technical Clarity:** Extensive illustrations and working drawings make complex concepts accessible
- • **Hands-On Learning Experience:** Practice-based approach ensures you develop real-world metalworking skills
- • **Master the Lathe with Confidence:** 12 detailed projects guide you from beginner to skilled home machinist

## Overview

Metal Lathe for Home Machinists is a project-driven instructional book featuring 12 progressively challenging lathe projects. Designed for beginners and intermediate users, it combines detailed illustrations and practical exercises to build essential metalworking skills, focusing on precision and concentricity. Highly rated with 4.4 stars from over 500 reviews, it’s a must-have for anyone looking to master lathe operations in a home workshop.

## Description

Metal Lathe for Home Machinists is a project-based course that provides a complete introduction to the lathe and lathe metalworking. This book takes beginners through all the basic techniques needed to tackle a wide range of machining operations. Advance through a series of practice projects that teach how to use the lathe and develop essential skills through practical application. Contained 12 lathe turning projects to develop confidence and become an accomplished home shop machinist, each project is designed to develop essential lathe skills that the reader will use again and again. All of the projects are extensively illustrated and full working drawings accompany the text. The book advances from basic projects to higher levels of difficulty as the course progresses, from a simple surface gauge to a milling cutter chuck where precision and concentricity is vital. After completing this course, the reader will have amassed a wealth of practical skills and a range of useful workshop tools and equipment, while lathe owners with more advanced skills will discover new techniques.

Review: Great book - Great book for the beginner.
Review: Great book, shame about the delivery - DHL Portugal couldn't be bothered to deliver this to my door and dumped it at a collection point 2km away. Not impressed. Book is good.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #220,942 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #392 in Mechanical Engineering #803 in How-to & Home Improvements #6,789 in Crafts & Hobbies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 505 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by P***G on 2 March 2024*

Great book for the beginner.

### ⭐ Great book, shame about the delivery
*by M***. on 24 April 2022*

DHL Portugal couldn't be bothered to deliver this to my door and dumped it at a collection point 2km away. Not impressed. Book is good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Happy
*by A***R on 10 July 2021*

Good

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*Last updated: 2026-10-13*