Hand
or Simple Turning
Principles
and Practice
by John Jacob Holtzapffel
Softcover
155 x 235mm
592pp
Published
by Dover Publications, Mineola NY, USA
R.R.P.$39.90
ISBN 0-486-26428-9
Extract from back cover of book:
This volume introduces the reader to all phases of the simple lathe. A very full historical introduction traces the development of the individual parts of the lathe from India, Persia and China up to the modern foot lathe still used in the twentieth century. Then comes full coverage of the use of the lathe: apparatus added to the lathe for specific purposes the division plate and index, boring collars, the slide rest, the spiral apparatus, lifting blocks and lengthening bearers; chucks and apparatus for fixing the various works in the lathe; the elementary practice of softwood turning; hardwood and ivory turning; metal turning; and screw cutting.
The final third is devoted to many specific projects which demonstrate the power of the lathe: the billiard ball and other accurate spheres; various works formed within the sphere (the Chinese ball, the Singapore ball, polyhedral compound forms nested inside a turned polyhedral box); egg cups, salt cellars, flower holders, ash trays, flour sifters, candlesticks, Greek and Etruscan vases, menu holders, tableware, wall mirrors, chandeliers and a hanging jardiniere. A supplementary chapter gives information on dyeing, staining, turning pipes in meerschaum, and other useful information.
The approach throughout is thoroughly practical. 771 figures and 22 plates illustrate almost every concept, method or object discussed. The summation of years of research and practical work, there is much here unavailable elsewhere. Reprinted from a rare original edition, this first inexpensive paperback volume belongs in the library of every serious woodworker.
"Required reading... very resourceful stuff." Fine Woodworking.
Unabridged Dover (1990) republication of the original (1881) edition, published as Volume IV of the five-volume work Turning and Mechanical Manipulation on the Lathe.
Illustrations: Black & White
Contents
Chapter
1: Introduction
The Circular Form
The Indian, Persian, Arabian and other
lathes. The Chinese lathe.
European lathes with reciprocal motion, from poles,
springs and bows.
Chapter
2: Center Lathes with Continuous Motion
- Introduction of the wheel
-
Foot wheels
- The
driving wheel considered as to momentum and as a speed pulley
- Cranks and
treadles of foot lathes
- Driving lines and bands. Splicing and couplers
Chapter
3: Lathes with Revolving Mandrels
- Mandrels mounted in wooden headstocks
-
Bar and bed lathes
- Mandrels mounted in metal headstocks
- Driving and
countershafts
Chapter
4: Modern Foot Lathes
- Lathes with traversing or screw cutting mandrels
-
The slide foot lathe
Chapter
4: Apparatus added to the Lathe for specific purposes
- The Division plate
and Index - Scribing tools
- Boring collars - Sliding guides and backstays
-
The Slide rest, Slide rest tools - Manipulation and adjustment
- Apparatus
added to plain lathes for cutting screws and spirals - The Spiral apparatus -
Surface spiral - Atkinson's Reciprocator
- Lifting blocks and lengthening bearers
Chapter
6: Chucks and Apparatus for fixing the various works in the Lathe
- Chucks
for long objects supported at both ends, the popit head always required
- long
objects supported at one end only
- Chucks for short objects, grasped by their
edges. Chucks without loose parts.
- Chucks for short objects, fixed against
one of their surfaces
Chapter
7: The Elementary Practice of Softwood Turning
- Position for Standing.
Treading the lathe
- External tools. Leverage. Position of the gouge and chisel
on the Cylinder. Calipers
- Position of the gouge and chisel on the Surface,
Back Surface, the Plankway surface and on the Cone
- The Internal cylinder,
Boring, Internal softwood tools. Hollowing with the gouge, hook and side tools.
The Internal surface.
- The Sphere and internal hemisphere
Chapter
8: The Elementary Practice of Hardwood and Ivory Turning
- Hardwood and
ivory tools. Position and cutting action.
- The Cylinder and Surface. The Armrest.
-
Boring and turning the internal cylinder. Internal surface and internal parting
tools.
- External and internal cones
- The Sphere and internal hemisphere
Chapter
9: Elementary Metal Turning
- Tools in commonuse for turning steel, iron
and brass. Preparation of the material. Speed and depth of cut. Lubrication.
-
Manipulation of the hand tools upon cylindrical forms in metal. Diamond tools.
-
Manipulation of the hand tools upon surfaces and surface forms in metal.
-
Metal cones, cylindrical and surface curves.
- Internal cylinder and surface.
Sequence or consecutive character of processes in metal turning.
Chapter
10: Screw Cutting
- Striking and chasing screws with the hand tools
-
Similar screws cut with the traversing mandrel
- Screw cutting with the Slide
lathe or Spiral apparatus
- Chuck and similar screws, tapped and then cut in
the lathe
Chapter
11: The Sphere and various forms in Hardwood and Ivory derived from this solid.
-
Selection and preparation of the material
- Chucking and turning the billiard
ball and accurate sphere
- various works formed within the sphere by plain
turning
Chapter
12: Practical Examples of Simple Plain Turning in Wood and Ivory
- Construction,
form and ornament
- Axial or simple plain turning
Chapter
13: Practical Examples of Combined Plain Turning. Executed with hand tools alone.
-
Various specimens of moderate dimensions. Attachment and formation of columns,
arcs of circles and other ornamental forms.
- Specimens generally larger, and
for useful purposes. Plain turning applied to surface ornamentation
Chapter
14: Miscellanea in Plain Turning in Wood and Ivory. Dyeing, staining and Darkening
-
Miscellanea
- Staining, dyeing and darkening