Adjust or shim the lathe’s tailstock-end feet a little bit ... This machine can be trusted not to cut tapers within at least 6″ or so. How close you want to get these measurements is up ...

It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

They look like baseball bats morphing into bowling pins, their ends flaring into an aggressive bulge that suddenly tapers. So ...