Mini-Lathe for Home Machinists

If you are looking for advice on the Mini Lathe. You will be better advised to visit mini-lathe.com. This is a site created by Frank Hoose. It has a wealth of information about the lathe and how to use it.If you want a book about lathe work. Try Lathework a complete course by Harold Hall.

This is an excellent guide to setting up the many versions of the Chinese-made mini lathe that are on offer from Axminster, Chester and the like. The book intriduces the lathe, and then goes on to give general advice on tools and accessories, before moving on to a few first projects which will provide some practice while making useful additions or alterations to the lathe itself. A great wee guide.

There's nothing really wrong with this book if judged on its own. However I thought it might be a good compliment to a book I already have by the same author -  The Mini-lathe (Workshop Practice) . Amazon even recommend that people buy these together. Well, it turns out that it is exactly the same book. The only difference I could see is that the photos are printed a little clearer in this one.By all means buy this book if you want to set up your Sieg C3 (or similar) lathe. Don't buy both though. The Mini-lathe (Workshop Practice)

great book

Just a tad outdated, nevertheless is still a very useful and interesting book to have in the library.No reason to regret purchasing this item.