Hand spun wood lathe - video

Hand spun wood lathe. By Ray Muniak. 6:23 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2-F8jbVOMU

Wow. Just Wow.

A brilliant job, but he has a lot more time on his hands that I can muster.

Pieces made on this lathe. 5:36 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSQkLYK1kuY

So in reality it's not so much a lathe as a rotisserie.

Yeah, he's essentially experimenting with the concept of what a lathe is. It's like when you order a "deconstructed" dessert at a fancy restaurant.

It seems to me it is not really so much a lathe as a horizontal mill with a rotary table...

A lathe has a rotating workpiece and a stationary tool; a mill has a stationary* workpiece and a rotating tool

*Stationary in that it is not the movement of the piece across the cutting tool that shapes the material but the movement of the tool across the piece; kind of the difference between a lathe and shaper.

This may really be a quibble without distinction...it's definitely an interesting tool

A lathe can take many shapes. If you think about it a potters wheel is a lathe. You put an indexing head on a lathe and use a tool post cutter/grinder to work on something. Do a search for; potato peeler, apple peeler, etc.

"At its heart, a lathe is a simple device, designed to hold a section of material to be carved, cut or shaped. This is called the workpiece. Unlike a simple vise, a lathe not only holds a workpiece, but also rotates it. This allows another part of the machine, the head, to move along the workpiece, using different bits or cutting instruments to remove material as needed and shape the workpiece. "
https://summitmt.com/product-categor...athe-used-for/

I know I do not have the patience for such a project - it came out a beautiful piece of ART. Great work.

I would like to know a source of the twin hand crank radial arm assembly shown in the video? Has anybody seen it before, or anything similar out there ?