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ORNAMENTAL TURNING

from the viewpoint of a practitioner.  

containing: a Gallery of ornamentally turned items made by the author, information about the Craft of Ornamental Turning, including a treatise on Ornamental Turning Lathes and Equipment, advice on certain Ornamental Turning Techniques, a list of useful Books, a catalogue of items For Sale and Wanted, information about Holtzapffel,  Evans and other makers of OT equipment; and Links to other websites of interest to ornamental turners.

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update    10 May 2013  

SALES AGREED FOR Holtzapffel OT Lathe No 2408 and Evans OT Lathe No.1242.              Evans No 1221 is still available at Buy-it-Now price of only £5,000.                         [click here]

BOOK - Holtzapffel Volume VI - NOW AT THE PRINTERS - currently available on CD - is soon to be produced as a printed hardback book of some 900 pages, many in colour.  I am hopeful that I can get this printed for less than £40 per copy (plus postage) I am now hopeful that the price will be £35 per copy with a discount of £10 to those people who have already bought the CD version from me.  Many of the pages on the CD version were scanned from old documents of variable, often poor quality and, in order to be able to read them, they have to be enlarged on the computer screen.  For the printed version most of these pages have had to be re-created by optical character reading or re-typing.  Some mistakes found on the CD version have been corrected and the printed version will contain a small amount of additional information.

I now invite readers to email me with a commitment to buy.  If I get more than 100 commitments I can get the price down to £40 - £35 and remember - if you already bought the CD the price to you will be £10 less then that.

email to: ornamental.turning[at]talktalk.net -but inserting @ in place of [at]

 

FOR SALE -  RE-LISTED three - just one left - excellent OT Lathe Outfits at new, Low, Buy-it-Now prices and Sundry Ornamental Turning and other Equipment and CDs of OT information         [click here]       

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Currently featured turners:

                                                        Brian Jackson                                                       Brian Jackson  

 

         Brian Jackson                                                Brian Jackson

 

            Brian Jackson                                Brian Jackson

 

            Brian Jackson

            

                            Dewey Garrett                                                            Dewey Garrett     

 

       

                Walter Wenninga                                    Joshua Salesin                        

 

       

            Gorst Duplessis

                            

for more pictures by featured turners [click here]

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Contact Information

telephone: 01732-355-479    e-mail:- ornamental.turning[at]talktalk.net  
                          - please use the @ character in place of [at]                            

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DIARY:  

Meetings of    The Society of Ornamental Turners  -click here for details-

 

the author's Holtzapffel #1869 Rose Engine and Ornamental Turning Lathe rebuilt by John Bower c.1848

16th March 2009     Welcome to my new 'Armbruster Mark II' Rose Engine! 

As smooth as the best Holtzapffel Rose Engine but more versatile: this Rose Engine has a '5C' collet system within the mandrel, so it is quite easy to adapt any chuck to fit it; it also has a combined amplitude adjuster and dog-leg drive to allow a pumping motion from rosettes without 'crown' (flank-cut) profiles.

Well done Fred - and congratulations to everyone who has (or will have) the privilege of owning one of these magnificent machines.

recent updates     

Q.A. WHEN IS AN OVAL NOT AN ELLIPSE? - an old Victorian argument. 

AUCTION RULES amended to make it clear that a 'BUY IT NOW' bid beats all other bidders and closes bids on that item  

A SHORT HISTORY OF TURNING  - This is an article I wrote in 2001 for the website of the Worshipful Company of Turners and I now reproduce it here [click here]

Rose Engine & O.T. Lathe: the best  ever made by Holtzapffel & Co., sold at auction on 1st December 2012 

   [click here for more information]

Results of the Turning Competitions held by the Worshipful Company of Turners on 16th October 2012.  [click here]

FORUM - Q: Were these bowls made using a Spiral-Spherical Slide-rest?  [click here]

FORUM - MYSTERY ROSE CHUCK? - Information Wanted . . . . . for more information and more pictures                       [click here]

[click here to go to the 'FORUM' PAGE for more Q's & A's]

 

 

 

Last modified: May 10, 2013