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Reprint of 1868 ORNAMENTAL TURNING BOOK THE LATHE AND ITS USES With this book you can actually make lathe attacments to produce AMAZING ornamental and rose engine work!
John Jacob Holtzapffel, the renowned maker of ornamental turning lathes, had hoped to complete a seven volume treatise embracing all aspects of lathe work. Unfortunately when he died in 1835 he had only completed 3 volumes (a 4th was subsequently released) and they dealt mainly with simple turning on the wood lathe. James Lukins created this book to extend and promote the knowledge and use of the ornamental lathe and the "rose engine". He draws from his own experience as an ornamental turner and from illustrated articles published in The English Mechanic. This book, The Lathe and Its Uses was published in the United States in 1868. Although it starts with wood turning on the simple lathe, fully 3/4 of the book is devoted various aspects of ornamental turning. Frankly, this book is AMAZING. He shows you curious chucks for turning goose eggs...not wooden eggs resembling goose eggs but for actually turning real goose eggs! T are several designs of sp turners, elliptical and rectilinear motion chucks, oval turners, expanding mandrels, clever cam-operated half-nuts, spiral turners, and all of these BEFORE you get into the rose engine! The illustrations in this book are excellent. In the 19th century you very seldom find detailed and dimensioned plans, however with these clear, multi-view drawings and the explanation of the principle behind the device you will be able to build both simple and intricate attachments for your lathe that will permit ornamentation on both planar and curved surfaces! Many of the designs illustrated are by Holtzapffel, however, you will also find designs by Prof. Ibbetson, Wallis, Plant, Elias Taylor and other designers! In addition, t are instructions on making curiosities like King George's Dumplings. These were ivory turnings a bit similar to Chinese balls but they consisted of a pierced sp which imprisoned a star-shaped carving. The star was clearly larger than the sp which contained it because it's points projected through the holes in the sp! T is also practical advice, for instance they made a paste of lampblack and glue and applied it in layers to the inside of hollow ivory turnings to make the fragile ivory better resist the pressure of the cutting tool! This is a BIG BOOK with 295 pages of text and hundreds of excellent illustrations. I have printed it out on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, actually somewhat larger than the original text so that the illustrations would be as large as possible. This is desktop publishing and so don't expect a fancy binding, but all the text and every illustration and it is securely bound with heavy-duty staples. I am offering this amazing book at fixed price with flat rate shipping of $2.85 for media mail delivery in the US, and $10.50 for delivrey to international destinations. Happy Bidding. 
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