Atlas 6 inch saved from scrapper

[stevec]

Billy, C'mon, the MEnute was misspelled intentionally to go with MEmorized & MEsmerized.
Just another feeble attempt at humour.

[Mayhem]

It's not funny if you have to explain it Steve!

[stevec]

Sometimes it's not funny even if I don't have to explain it.
BTW, Mayhem, thanks for your "explanation"

[Rickabilly]

(10-02-2012, 08:47 AM)Mayhem Wrote: I shudder to think of the price tag that dangles from one of those.

Hello Darren,
Do you mean the price of the watch or the lathes?

From what I can tell a lot of these guys make their own lathes and specialist "chucks" the chucks allow the special movement of the workpiece that creates the patterns, one of the chucks I was looking at the other day seemed to take up more that half of the bed length and had five sets of compound gear trains, amazing stuff, and all for a pretty pattern sometimes so small that you need a microscope to see it, like I said a different plane of existence.

The watches by the way, one of those recently sold two years old and never worn $19,000.
yet another plane of existence.

I had a business partner that would think nothing of spending £1,000 on a writing set, always fountain pens which made his writing look like chickens scratching on an ink pad, it is truly unbelievable the things that people with big money will spend it on.

Regards
Rick

[Bill Gruby]

One gent went to a museum in England and line drew a complete "Holtzapffel Rose Engine". He made two of them over I believe a 6 year period. He sold one to pay for building both. The sum if I remember was around $24,000 for the one sold. It was a piece of art. Link to the reproduction pics.

http://books.google.com/books?id=BHf51cG...on&f=false

"Billy G"

Sorry Steve, I missed that part.

[sasquatch]

Wow, not only is that lathe beautiful, there is a lot of beautiful workmanship on that page!!

[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

[Bill Gruby]

I have been looking at this one for some time now Rick. You can really add on to this.

http://www.woodturner.org/products/aw/ho...ruction_v6

"Billy G"

For whatever reason that link doesn't work. Google Building a Rose Engine. Search for MDF Construction Instructions. Building a Rose Engine. It will be on the first page as a PDF file.

[stevec]

"No-Go" on that link Bill.

[bobm4360]

Posted some MDF Rose Engine stuff in "Resources".

Regards,
Bob