So I have broken the back of the flat bed router/mill I have been working on which feels like forever and kind of has been but its turning out great and although still things to do its on the home stretch at the very least. (http://www.mycncuk.com/threads/4572-...on-the-horizon)

One of the projects I wanted to undertake after this was to build a similar scale slant bed lathe. I used to have a 3 axis Churchill Matrix beast of a machine which was fantastic and allowed me to make an awful lot of useful parts in repetition so I am looking to replicate something similar but on a much smaller scale than that thing!

Current plans are to buy a pre made spindle because my lathe is not up to machining to the tolerances I need for making one right now (until that gets replaced ;) )

I have been looking into the "epoxy Granite" / composite construction methods for some time now and I am very tempted to look down this route for this machine I think it would certainly be possible to make a good base and headstock for the machine using this technique what do people think?

I would certainly want to be producing a tool changing turret and have seen plenty of designs out there that seem successful enough.

So basically I am back to the drawing board only right now, until the other machine is done I will not be working on this other than in a design sense however I would like to get the design up and running so once I can make some parts using the mill (mould etc) I have something to work from!

As ever all inputs are appreciated

Thanks

Francis