The detail that caught me off guard is that this lathe has no gearbox at all. Spindle drive is a 1.8 kW servo motor with a 1:1.5 gear reduction, the gears connected by a toothed belt. The maker says the servo was picked because thread cutting with the G33 cycle needs one, and the servo is configured through its own drive. That is a clean way to handle spindle speed on a home build.
The structure looks properly old-school. The bed is cast iron, with the rails and headstock bolted down to it. Both axes ride on linear rails, and there is a linear slide with a ball screw and an aluminum tooling plate. A central lubrication system feeds the ways, which on a machine like this seems like a very smart thing to include rather than skip.
On the working end there is a quick-change tool post and a 4-jaw chuck. Both X and Z run closed-loop steppers with encoders, and everything is controlled by LinuxCNC, currently set up as a lathe.
There is plenty still open. A mill setup with a 4th axis is planned, though whether a milling spindle actually gets added is not settled. For tool changes, the idea is a few tools in a row with a programmed change instead of a turret, and ways covers are on the list to add. I will be curious how the gang tooling approach holds up, since that seems like the boldest part of the plan to me.