a guy building a lathe with hand tools

[Mike McCann]

this is great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eG9R0q9QJQc

[george wilson]

Yabbut,he's building a lathe out of an existing lathe and an existing cast iron flywheel with assistance from a machine shop. What he's building is the wooden frame the lathe sits on.