The practice of hand-turning in wood, ivory, shell, etc. : with instructions for turning such works in metal as may be required in the practice of turning in wood, ivory, etc. : also, an appendix on ornamental turning : a book for beginners (1868)
Campin, Francis · London : E. & F.N. Spon · leaf 305
hich the grooves may be cut by fixing a tool with a semi-circular cutting- edge on its side in the slide- rest, whilst the latter is traversed across the face of the work which is held perfectly still, and each pair of holes brought consecutively into the same horizontal line. We will now proceed… … looked, of recapitulating the various methods of exe¬ cuting eccentric and segmental work, so that if the amateur is not desirous of producing those simple
Turning (Lathe work)
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