Turning · review
The cheapest full-size wood lathe here, and the one that most clearly needs bolting down before it is any good.
The end of it A reasonable first lathe at a reasonable price, on a listing that tells you almost nothing. Ask for three numbers first.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
Part number 4312110. Nothing else — no swing, no center distance, no motor rating, no spindle thread.
That is a striking omission on a machine whose entire usefulness is defined by two dimensions, and it is the reason this review is short.
A lathe spins an unbalanced lump of wet timber at several hundred revolutions a minute. Everything you feel through the tool — chatter, a surface that will not come clean, the machine creeping across the floor — comes back to whether there is enough mass to absorb that.
A light lathe is not unusable; it is a lathe that has to be bolted down and its stand loaded with ballast. Sand bags in the base of a stand are the cheapest upgrade in turning, and almost every owner of a light machine ends up making it.
At €155 this is a light machine, and the ballast is not optional if you intend to turn anything out of balance.
Every chuck, faceplate and screw center you will ever own has to match the lathe’s spindle thread, and several standards are in common use. An adaptor exists for most combinations and it moves the work further from the bearings, which is exactly where you do not want it.
Read the thread off the machine — not off a forum post about the same model — before spending anything on chucks.
Read on the day this page was built: $490 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Part number | 4312110 |
|---|---|
| Amazon reference | B07KYC5LF2 (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4006825633924 |
Close: the listing carries part number 4312110 and reads TC-WW 1000/1. We name it as the listing does.
Three numbers the listing does not give: swing over bed (how large a diameter it takes), distance between centers (how long a piece it takes), and the spindle thread (what chucks will fit). Any seller can supply them, and all three change what the machine can do.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
7.2/ 10
A reasonable first lathe at a reasonable price, on a listing that tells you almost nothing. Ask for three numbers first.
A first lathe for spindle work — chair legs, tool handles, stair spindles
Listed because the blade or part names this saw.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
230 V · Ø 254 mm (10 in) swing · 5 speeds
A properly built small lathe with five speeds and a stated swing — the first machine here that publishes what it can turn.
Best for: Bowls up to 254 mm (10 in) and spindle work, in a workshop that wants a machine rather than a starter kit
12 × 21 in · 60–3,600 rpm in three ranges · reverse · 24 index positions
Sixty revolutions a minute at the bottom — the only lathe here slow enough to start an unbalanced blank safely.
Best for: Bowl work up to 305 mm (12 in), where the first minute at low speed is the dangerous one
≈ $990
10 × 14 in · 250–3,200 rpm in three ranges · TEFC · 95 lb · 24 index positions
Ninety-five pounds and a published footprint, with a bearing-spacing claim no other lathe here makes.
Best for: A bench that can take 43 kg (94.8 lb), and spindle work where the tool rest edge matters
≈ $565
