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 ...

There are two types of tailstocks: manual and pneumatic ... Lathes with cylindrical tailstocks that can rotate around a vertical axis are turret lathes. All lathes have a bench centers, which is a ...

We align our stock on a center line in the work holding installed in the lathe and rely on our work coordinate system that we set up to try to match it as best as possible in real life. Our work ...