Historic Lathes Site

[chrisb691]

Bumped into this site whilst I was looking for something else, and thought it would be of interest to you guys. http://www.historicgames.com/lathes/tools.html

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

It just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun. Even the geniostat looks familiar, although called differently nowadays. :D

[Hickory]

Sort of makes myrth of those "Revolutionary new designs" that the tool guys introduce to us....
http://www.historicgames.com/lathes/Chisels.GIF

[La truciolara]

Thank you chris, that was quite interesting
I have some tools of this periode of time. They were my great grand father's:
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/5166/gouges671ilegere5vi.th.jpg (http://img478.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouges671ilegere5vi.jpg)

http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/9479/gouges6097br.th.jpg (http://img478.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouges6097br.jpg)
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/4378/gouges6313et.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouges6313et.jpg)
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/7738/gouges6357kb.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouges6357kb.jpg)<O:p</O:p
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http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/6228/gouges6525yl.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouges6525yl.jpg)
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I have never been able to use this one. If by any chance you know how to use it I would be quite interested in trying.

[keith53]

Sort of makes myrth of those "Revolutionary new designs" that the tool guys introduce to us....
Looks like they were being inflicted with the accursed skew chisel even back then. Just another example of mankind not learning from his mistakes. :D

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Sort of makes myrth of those "Revolutionary new designs" that the tool guys introduce to us....

As fas as I can work out, the only modern "revolutionary new designs" are the either ring tools (as distinct from ring cutting tools) or the ones with cutting bits screwed to the shank. I put this down simply to the fact that modern manufacturing methods make it easier to produce these tools now.

But for all the rest... I've seen a couple in the pix above that I wouldn't mind trying for myself and seriously doubt are available nowadays. Time to break out the toolmaking tools... again. ;)

[rsser]

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/6228/gouges6525yl.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouges6525yl.jpg)
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I have never been able to use this one. If by any chance you know how to use it I would be quite interested in trying.

Looks a bit like the kind of spoon gouge clog makers use.

[La truciolara]

Looks a bit like the kind of spoon gouge clog makers use.
Do you know how it is used? the metal is very thin as compared to "traditional" gouges. I have seen, in a small village in France, clog makers, but they were using other "gouges" (if one can call them gouges). Was it for the interior tip of the clog?

[rsser]

Only seen it done once myself. A heavy spoon shaped gouge was used to hollow the main part. Maybe something like this tool would have been used to round off and clean up the heel.

[ticklingmedusa]

Great stuff, thanks for posting,
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