Goldie Machine

[auscab]

I thought I would post these pictures of this Australian made machine, it may be called a copy shaper or lathe I,m not sure, it was originaly set up for oars [the first three pics ] and I changed it to suit legs and turnings for furniture, it came with the cast iron oar template and cast iron axe handle templates and cuts a cab leg like the wood template in the last two pictures in a few minutes.cheers Rob

[burraboy]

Nice machine, I've seen one of these set up before for making axe handles. Does it have a sharpener for the cutters?

[Pops]

Hi Rob,

I have not seen ones of these. What a beauty. Got a bit of history there I reckon. A Cabriole leg in a few minutes, nice.

Cheers
Pops

[auscab]

Burraboy It does not have a sharpener for the cutters, the first picture shows them, once they get blunt I will rotate each a little to a new sharp bit, but will have to send them off when blunt all around.

The other pics are the first good test run ,a cypress pine template cutting the same timber leg, after this I did redgum templates and cut a run of twenty front and twenty back legs in Mahogany for a chair we make,haven't used it since but I want to do some table legs soon

Pops ,I first saw a much more basic machine than this cutting walnut gun stocks in the Ameican civil war documentry,then I saw this on ebay and took a chance and bought it,when I first got it ,I got in touch with Goldie Engineering in Lidcombe or Mortlake ? NSW and spoke to the boss who remembered making and servicing them when he was young , he did remember that one was made for oars and sent to Sydney

Since these pictures I put a smaller pulley on the motor because it was going at a very fast and loud speed , and have put a guard over the belt

[Pops]

Hi Rob,

A good score indeed. I love those old specialist lathes and the like. They are all disappearing. Great to hear it will be kept running.

Thanks for the photos too.

Cheers
Pops