John Jacob Holtzapffel · digital reprint by www.CircuitousRoot.com · leaf 660
626 EMPLOYED FOE TURNING moderately spherical, chucked, held and turned in the manner described in the chapter on turning billiard balls by hand in the previous volume. The rough balls when dry or seasoned are then chucked within the true orifice of a plain wood chuck, such an one as is also used… … ground exactly central to the width of the stem, or, which is preferable, with a flat tool fig. 22, the straight cutting edge of which latter is always as a tangent to the curve it is cutting. The tangent screw fig. 594 is more usually placed out of gear and the rest swung gently round by hand and…
Ornamental turning
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