Our project focused on crafting a tabletop wood lathe tailored specifically for pen turning. To gather insights and skills, our team received training on Olin's full-size wood lathe and explored various existing models, including investigating a professor's tabletop wood lathe. Considering the scope and timeframe aligned with the Mechanical Design final event, we narrowed our focus to a tabletop-sized lathe, ensuring a manageable build over a few weeks. Emphasizing elements pertinent to the Mechanical Design curriculum, such as the belt drive, we derived our design from the observed pulley system within  a pre-existing lathe transmission. Due to class constraints, we simplified the tailstock system for our pen-turning needs, drawing inspiration from a streamlined tailstock discovered during our research. Throughout the project, we honed diverse design and manufacturing skills, encompassing assembly modeling in Shape, part drawings for machining, waterjet cut sheet layouts, manual milling, welding, metal lathe operations, angle grinding, and precision angle cuts on the bandsaw