We see a lot of CNC Machines here on Hackaday but not too many of them are lathe-based. [Jim] sent us an email letting us know his dissatisfaction regarding the lack of CNC Lathes and ...

Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe.

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But it's actually a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine ... in which it basically functions as a lathe, allowing the workpiece to rotate while the milling bit approaches on X, Y, and Z ...

CNC machines are basically just robots. They only do what you tell them to do, and you’ve got to write a program to tell it what to do." ...