Lathey Days

Sorry if you've been dialling me up, only to find nothing new here.

Well here's some more old things...

In case you were wondering where all that pole lathe stuff from the last post was going;

Ok - its Max Ernst and his chess set. ( thanks Mal E for straightening that out)

Anyway, nice lathe work...

via Danish Pepper Mills Blog,

a taxonomic collection of Quistgaard pepper mills at Sam Kaufmann Gallery.

I wonder if there's any consensus on which is the best one? I might hire Malcom Gladwell to research this for me.

Watchmaker's hand lathe via FTJ.

Its not a steam-punk thing- dont pigeon-hole me. Its just a nice machine.

Pedal-powered ( fixed-gear too) scroll saw. FTJ ag'in.

Hard to imagine folks actually made such pretty machines.

Possibly because all the structural parts are cast-iron, dynamic curves become not only possible, but efficient and appropriate. Like how bones are structured inside?

The ol' disembodied-hands-doing-the-work-diagram.

Bow lathe and pole lathe. Making violin tuning pegs I think...