Ornamental Wood Turning
Ornamental Wood Turning
Ornamental wood turning has been practiced for over 400 years. But, the history of turning goes back much farther than that. The art of plain turning is known to have been practiced for at least 3500 years, with gradually increasing improvement from simple woodturning devices to modern engineering.
The art of decorative turning necessarily embodies
many distinct classes of work, which may be applied
to either the surface, cylinder, or to the shaping of
compound solid forms, polygonal figures, and a variety
of other and distinct shapes ; the different instruments
being applied in combination with almost equal facility
for all and any of them.
The decoration of the surface is accomplished by various groupings of fine lines, and the intersection of circles together with other curves,
A lathe of the particular type most suited
to the art of ornamental turning should be at least
a 5-in. centre lathe with a spindle, which is bored throughout its entire length; and, as all lathes of high-class manufacture should do, runs in high quality bearings. The spindle should be also perfectly hard.
The latter being bored through adds considerably to the
convenience of the lathe for many purposes ; long rods
of steel or other materials, for instance, may be passed through the aperture while the end projecting from the
chuck is turned ; and in the case of a large number of
small articles being required, each one may be cut off,
and the material withdrawn and again fixed.
All forms that have been previously brought to the
desired shape by hand-turning, or under the influence
of the slide-rest, etc., may be shaped by various
chucks and revolving cutters so that they may be decorated
in almost endless ways—by perforations, flutes,
beads, pearls, reeds, facets, etc. ; and the various ornamentations are equi- distantly arranged by the employment of the index-peg and division-plate while the
various cutters are presented to the work and driven
from overhead.
Other means of equalizing the spaces laterally are provided by the main screw and micrometer of the slide-rest, arrested at intervals by the fluting-stops, or, for finer adjustments, by the number of turns or divisions that are made. The partial rotation
of the spindle, under the guidance of the wormwheel and tangent- screw, also gives results equally necessary to the decoration of compound solid forms.
The work is not in any way confined to circular shapes, but by the various instruments may be reduced to polygonal figures and many other forms. In the case of the original shape being retained, the work is simply held stationary by the index-point while the distinct cuts are made at the required intervals by the different cutters; or, for the alteration of the form, the work may be carried in a rectilinear direction, or partially rotated while the tool revolves. All the various movements in combination result in very curious and beautiful designs, enabling the perforations, etc, to be placed in various groups to suit the design of the object.
Ornamental Turning — Box Decorated, Emc2 Cnc
The machine is an ornamental turning emulator; the motion controller is EMC2; the software is home grown — For more woodturning see: www.deweygarrett.com. Related Posts: Web Browsers And Other Newly Installed Programs Related To The …
Publish Date: 08/29/2009 20:43
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Ornamental Oval wood Turning by Foster Giesmann
My Grandfather was a great master of ornamenting oval pieces was the American Foster Giesmann (1915 2001). He has used a special lathe and refined mechanical devices for different ornamenting processes, all designed and made by himself [1] Years ago …
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