Profile: F.W. Derbyshire, Inc. builds precision lathes. We offer ball bearing spindles. We design a staff lathe, which is used to produce pinion shafts for watches, timers and dial indicators. We also produce pinion cutters and small milling machines. We offer instrument lathe, which includes ball bearing with machine tool grade ABEC 7 precision bearings. Our instrument lathe is equipped with the appropriate accessories such as manual screw feed slide units, rack & pinion operated single or compound slides, a variety of collet holding tailstocks, semi automatic six station turrets and lever type collets.