John Jacob Holtzapffel · digital reprint by www.CircuitousRoot.com · leaf 75
all show a short rectangular main or lower slide that terminates in the solid in two supports, which curve inwards to embrace a strong block of wood fixed to a fiat wood base plate to stand on the lathe bed, and both the mainslide and its transverse or receptacle slide, the latter nearly a copy of… … This later early French sliderest was made entirely of brass, and the forked supports of its mainslide were received upon tenons formed at either side of the upper half of the base, which half could be turned round and fixed by a bolt at any horizontal angle to the lower, a flat plate which stood…
Ornamental turning
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