John Jacob Holtzapffel · digital reprint by www.CircuitousRoot.com · leaf 221
mutually reduced taper and meet in a point at the apex. For the tetrahedron or pyramid of three sides, indi- vidually equal to the base, fig. 209, the sliderest stands at an angle of 191 degrees * to the cylinder, and the equal sides and base thus arise so soon as the traverses of the tool produce… … rechucked in the manner described for fig. 207, that the projec- tion left by its separation from the cylinder may be turned level with the base. This last operation may be avoided by first carefully surfacing one face of a short length of material, glueing that to the true surface of another piece…
Ornamental turning
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