John Jacob Holtzapffel · digital reprint by www.CircuitousRoot.com · leaf 108
us known as the cradle fig. 57, places the slide- rest at once square to turn either the true surface or the true cylinder, and supersedes the set square and the use of the test surface and cylinder already described as otherwise essential for this purpose. Its value lies not only in the absolute… … elegant arbitrary forms shaped and ornamented by the combined application of the different ornamenting chucks and cutting frames used in combination. A large proportion of such forms are obtained by the superposition and partial obliteration of one style of cutting by another, and in such work it…
Ornamental turning
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