Atlas 6 inch saved from scrapper

[Rickabilly]

(10-03-2012, 03:32 PM)Bill Gruby Wrote: One gent went to a museum in England and line drew a complete "Holtzapffel Rose Engine".

That's THE lathe to have, but I am hoping to build something a whole lot more humble but able to do the work, if you look past the shiny brass and antique cabinets with treadle power, right down at the core of it, it's a lathe, with some fancy attachments,

Much of the work done on these machines was in wood, the watchmakers of course loved their brass, there was a lot of ivory used but on the whole, probably 90% of the ornamental turning was done in wood, the other thing was the making of forms and patterns for silver smiths and Jewelers, apparently Fabergé was an ornamental turning master , I never realised that all those fluted bowl trophy designs and fandangley forms that we see in Rococo artwork and Victorian and Georgian design was all done first on one of these lathes.

Rick