MY BELOVED ATLAS
It was a simple question, really, asked by someone unfamiliar with shop machinery. We were talking about my workshop when I mentioned I had a lathe. “What’s a lathe?” he asked. I told him it’s a machine on which I can work metal. He then asked exactly what I did with it. And that’s when it got complicated.
According to the , a lathe is “a machine for holding and turning pieces of wood or metal etc. against a tool that
