Want to see pictures of your benchtop lathe stand

[Pevehouse]

Mine is the Enco stand that my Enco came with. I did paint my bench using automotive paint and clear while I had the lathe off.

 

[Tincamp67]

Metal would be great, but I can’t weld. So, I went with wood construction. 2x6 is probably overkill, But I wanted it to be stable. I even hung the change gears down on the left side panel. It’s hard to see, but i use a tinfoil roasting pan for a removable chip tray.

 

[westcoastr]

I like my machines nice and solid, so go to your local equipment auction, CL, FB marketplace whatever, and find some old cast iron tables. The bigger and heavier the better and bolt it to the floor and your lathe on top. I’m not a fan of wood, as it shrinks and swells and can cause leveling issues sometimes. I picked up two tables for maybe $150…I have these two tables waiting to replace the factory “desk” style table for Sheldon my lathe. Just need to cut of the old junk welded to it, sand blast and paint.

 

[Dave G in upstate New York]

Some very impressive benches. I recently needed a bench for an Atlas bench lathe I purchased.
It's mostly just leftovers and scavenged materials. The 2 I-beams were salvaged from an engine dynamometer that was scrapped from the lab I worked for long before I worked there, sometime in the early 80s. We finally left the building in 2010, and the beams were headed to the scrap yard. So I saved them. The legsare 2x3 ox tubing, frm a short rack at the nearest Metal Supermarket at $0.25/pound. The bottom pan is leftover angle iron and 18 gauge steel, and was filled with a bag of concrete to add mass down low. And the wooden top is a section of glue lam the local Ace Hardware store gave me. Once I clear out a spot for it, I'll level the lathe, and fasten it down to the floor, well in reverse order...

 

[David2011]

This bench was originally intended to be used for building radio controlled airplanes but it was under construction when the lathe became available. I modified the carcass design a little to accommodate the additional weight with the main changes being a thicker piece of ply for the back of the bench and a much stronger base. The base is 2" thick engineered plywood beam material ripped to 3-1/2" width. The retractable casters will not lift the bench with the drawers in place but they work reasonably well with the drawers removed.

 

[SouthernChap]

This bench was originally intended to be used for building radio controlled airplanes but it was under construction when the lathe became available. I modified the carcass design a little to accommodate the additional weight with the main changes being a thicker piece of ply for the back of the bench and a much stronger base. The base is 2" thick engineered plywood beam material ripped to 3-1/2" width. The retractable casters will not lift the bench with the drawers in place but they work reasonably well with the drawers removed.

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Well, I'm not normally a 'wood everywhere' kinda guy but this is very pretty.

 

[David2011]

Well, I'm not normally a 'wood everywhere' kinda guy but this is very pretty.

Thanks! I have woodworking equipment (out of necessity) in the shop as well as the metal working machinery. The drawer fronts are actually MDF. The sharp corners were rounded with a 1/8” radius roundover bit and the MDF was finished with oil based polyurethane thinned 50% until no more was bein absorbed. The final coats were only thinned about 10%. The effect is much like coating a soft material with thin epoxy. The finished product is much tougher than the soft bare MDF.