Treadle lathe

Howto build homemade treadle lathe, where to buy it, shops, links.

Introduction

A treadle lathe is a machine in which a piece of wood is rotated around a fixed axis, where the rotation is caused by the up and down movement of the operators foot on a treadle.

Shops

Homemade treadle lathe

Some links to goot galleries and howto tips and plans:
Nice larry Holland's treadle lathe, lot of photos
Some plans, mostly in PDF
more links will follow...

Literature

A must be: How to Build a Treadle-Operated Woodturning Lathe by Bob Ingham
ISBN 30946688
Price: unknown