The Turner's Companion

About this eBook

Author

Anonymous

Title

The turner's companion containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning; also various plates of chucks, tools and instruments: and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular rest; with patterns, and instructions for working them.

Original Publication

United States: Henry Carey Baird, 1868.

Credits

Bob Taylor, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TT: Technology: Handicrafts, Arts and crafts

Subject

Turning (Lathe work)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70100

Release Date

February 21, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE TURNER’S COMPANION:
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.THE LATHE.
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.CHUCKS. — THE SCREW. — BORING COLLAR. — OF WOODS. — TO STAIN WOOD RED. — A YELLOW STAIN. — A BLACK STAIN. — A PURPLE STAIN. — A MAHOGANY STAIN. — TO DIE IVORY RED. — BLACK DYE.
7. 7.ELLIPTIC TURNING.
8. 8.ECCENTRIC TURNING. — THE DRILL.
9. 9.GONEOMETER. — CIRCULAR REST. — THE VERTICAL, OR UNIVERSAL CUTTER.
10. 10.ECCENTRIC CHUCK. — PATTERN 2. — PATTERN 3. — PATTERN 4. — PATTERN 5. — PATTERN 6. — PATTERN 1, PLATE 12. — PATTERN 2. — PATTERN 5. — PATTERN 6. — PATTERN 1, PLATE 14. — PATTERN 2. — PATTERN 3. — PATTERN 4. — PATTERN 5. — PATTERN 6. — PATTERN 7. — PATTERN 8. — PATTERN 9. — TO LINE WOODEN BOXES WITH TORTOISE-SHELL. — TO FINISH THE SNUFF-BOX. — HORN TO IMITATE TORTOISE-SHELL. — MASTIC USED IN TURNING IVORY VERY THIN. — BEAUTIFUL VARNISH FOR WOOD, TO BE USED WHILE THE WORK IS ON THE LATHE. — TURNER’S CEMENT. — NEW AND VALUABLE RECIPE FOR TAKING BEAUTIFUL IMPRESSIONS FROM TURNING PATTERNS. — Transcriber’s Notes

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