Where are the OT lathe plan and video clip?

[waltfb]

Received my maggazine a day or two ago. I don't see anything on the AAW website with the plans and video clip for the Ornamental Turning lathe.

I could never figure out how thes things work, I didn't realize that the spindle doesn't spin ;-)

Walt Black

 

[Bill Boehme]

Check here.

Bill

 

[Steve Worcester]

AAW members,

I'm told that the author of the Rose Engine Lathe making article, contained in the Spring 2007 AW (Jon Magill), has been in the hospital recently, and is now recovering from surgery. Unfortunately, Jon did not complete the supplemental parts of his article that were intended for the AAW website before this hospital stay. We're all hoping that Jon recovers soon and these missing parts of the article are available to upload onto the site, maybe within the next few weeks.

Please excuse this inconvenience and stand by for further announcements. As soon as we know more, I'll post a note here on the Forum.
Best regards,

Ed Davidson
AAW Webmaster
Colorado Springs, CO

For the record

 

[waltben]

Turning vs. Milling

I truly admire what Jon and other skilled ornamental turners do, but there is a difference between ornamental turning and ornamental milling. The Rose engine is one of three that has historically been used to make oval picture frames and other oval items, but also can be used as in the last AAW magazine for ornamental milling. Johannes Volmer has a great document available on his web site that shows a piece from 1586 (attached) that was most likely made on a Rose engine lathe and turned, not milled. A Rose engine itself is always a lathe - it rotates the wood or whatever that is being worked on (manually or by motor doesn't matter). Any time one uses a rotating cutter, a router or whatever, they are milling - just like a machinest has to do with metal. Really beautiful pieces can be made this way and I am only differentiating between the two methods.

 

[Joe Greiner]

I appreciate the distinction Walt Bennett makes between ornamental turning and ornamental milling. But I think it's overly restrictive. By his definition, ornamental turning would be limited to simple shapes, such as ovals, which could be controlled by oscillation of the faceplate, as in the Schaumb (sp?) mill and his Vicmark accessory (on a nearby thread). A rosette or cam would not be able to control the work fast enough to allow direct cutting; too much bounce with the follower/rubber. IIRC, Holtzapfel's lathes all had a rotating cutter, and the work was still called ornamental turning.

Joe