Turning · review
Ninety-five pounds and a published footprint, with a bearing-spacing claim no other lathe here makes.
The end of it The best-documented lathe here — weight, footprint, bearings, tool rest — and the bottom speed is 250.
Every figure below names its source. Each one is a manufacturer specification read off the listing itself. The judgments are ours.
Forty-three kilograms, and 899 by 264 by 427 millimeters.
No other lathe on either half of this shelf publishes either figure, and on a lathe they are most of the specification: mass is what absorbs an out-of-balance blank, and a benchtop machine has to fit a bench.
The published Einhell page on this shelf has the opposite problem in its cons — light, so it will need ballast and bolting down.
On the leading edge of the tool rest, which is the part that wears fastest and shows it worst.
A gouge pivots on the rest and is dragged along it. A soft rest picks up nicks, and every nick is a stutter in the cut because the tool catches instead of sliding. Filing them out lowers the rest a little each time.
This is the only listing on either half of this shelf to publish a hardened edge. The rest publish that a tool rest exists.
A headstock casting that moves the two spindle bearings further apart.
Spindle deflection under side load falls sharply as the bearings separate, so wider spacing means less flex when a gouge is pushed into a bowl rim a hundred millimeters out from the headstock.
It is a real design claim and it is unmeasured: no spacing figure, no runout figure. Across fourteen lathe and grinder listings on this shelf, this is the only page that mentions bearings.
Which is the one place this machine gives ground to the JET beside it.
Two fifty is slow enough for spindle work and for a balanced bowl blank. It is not slow enough for a square lump on a faceplate, and sixty is.
A lathe is chosen on two dimensions and one commitment.
The dimensions are the swing over the bed and the distance between centers. The commitment is the spindle thread, because every chuck, faceplate and screw center bought afterwards has to match it — and the common threads are 1 in by 8 TPI, M33 by 3.5 and 3/4 in by 16, which are not interchangeable in any direction.
Across all five American listings on this shelf, not one publishes it. The published Einhell page here carries the same absence in its cons, and the shelf’s own intro names it as the reason to care.
Read on the day this page was built: $565 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 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Swing over bed | 10 in — 254 mm |
|---|---|
| Between centers | 14 in — 356 mm |
| Motor | 1 HP TEFC — totally enclosed fan cooled, 110–120 V · The only enclosed motor on this shelf |
| Speed range | 250 to 3,200 rpm, electronic control over a 3-step pulley giving three ranges, with a digital rpm display |
| Spindle thread | Not published by the maker. |
| Spindle bearings | A projected bearing cone, stated to increase bearing spacing for spindle stability — the only bearing claim on this shelf |
| Indexing | 24 positions, with a push-button spindle lock |
| Tailstock | A self-ejecting quill |
| Construction | Cast iron headstock and tailstock |
| Supplied | A 3 in faceplate, a spur drive, a live center, and a 1 in tool rest post with a 6 mm (0.24 in) hardened steel leading edge |
| Overall size | 35.4 × 10.4 × 16.8 in, published — 899 × 264 × 427 mm (35.4 × 10.4 × 16.8 in) |
| Weight | 95 lb, published — 43 kg (94.8 lb) |
| Auxiliary outlet | A 120 V outlet for a work light — the only auxiliary outlet on this shelf |
| Part number | MLAREVO10A |
| Amazon reference | B0G4NMBL2Q |
| EAN | 0195444297106 |
Because the rest is the part that wears fastest and shows it worst. A gouge is pivoted on the rest and dragged along it, and a soft rest develops nicks; every nick becomes a stutter in the cut, because the tool catches on it instead of sliding. Filing them out lowers the rest a little each time. Six millimeters of hardened steel along the leading edge is the fix, and this is the only listing on either half of this shelf to publish one — the rest of this shelf publishes that a tool rest exists.
A headstock casting that moves the two spindle bearings further apart. Spindle deflection under a side load goes down sharply as the bearings separate, so a wider spacing means less flex when a gouge is pushed into a bowl rim 100 mm (3.94 in) from the headstock. It is a real design claim and it is unmeasured — no spacing figure and no runout figure is published. Across both halves of this shelf this is the only listing that mentions the bearings at all.
One fewer extension lead. A work light on a lathe has to move with the work, so it is clamped to the bed or the headstock and trails a cable — and a trailing cable near a spinning spindle is the thing that catches. A 120 V outlet on the machine keeps that cable short and switched with the lathe. It is the only one on this shelf, and it is the sort of detail that only appears on a listing written by somebody who turns.
A bench that can take 43 kg (94.8 lb), and spindle work where the tool rest edge matters
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.
Entry lathe · €155 in Germany
The cheapest full-size wood lathe here, and the one that most clearly needs bolting down before it is any good.
Best for: A first lathe for spindle work — chair legs, tool handles, stair spindles
≈ $490
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
