FOR SALE & WANTED 

FOR SALE  SOLD: Rose Cutting Frame by Cooke & Sons, York;

complete and original with set of 6 rosettes, key and lever in fitted mahogany box.

FOR SALE  SOLD: Spherical Slide-rest  by Wm Goyen

SOLD   A very well-equipped late model 5" Holtzapffel Ornamental Turning Lathe outfit with a vast range of equipment including: Screw-mandrel Headstock with tangent screw and segment wheel, with stops and micrometers, star-nut and screw-thread guides, division plate, adjustable index and countershaft; Screw-barrel tailstock with 15 centres, revolving centre, tailstock chuck and drill pad; Boring Collar & stand, Slender Turning Guide (or fixed steady); Hand-rest & 4 tees; Raising Blocks to 6½"; Ornamental Slide-rest with fluting stops, curvilinear apparatus, automatic drive, ratchet counter, travelling steady, leadscrew extension for spiral apparatus and inspection mirror; Eccentric, Ellipse, Dome, Rectilinear Chucks and the rare Oblique Chuck; Eccentric, Universal, Horizontal, Vertical and Internal Cutting Frames; Spiral apparatus, Face Spiral Apparatus & Reciprocator; a comprehensive range of more than 100 work-holding chucks, sundry Cutter Bars;  Automatic Counting Index,  Compensating Index; Epicycloidal Cutting Frame, Geared Universal Cutting Frame (by Evans), Long Internal Vertical Cutting Frame, 2 Chests of honing equipment with Goniostats (by Evans), Chest of Cutters and Drills with pair of matching Drilling Spindles and pad handle,  Wood block of parting and thread-chasing cutters; Heavy duty slide-rest, Triptych Cabinet of 71 Hand Tools, large and small Turners Squares, Parallel and Double-ended Callipers, Set and Sliding Bevils etc., sets of special hand-tools and D-bits, etc., and the rare automatic overhead drive for the headstock and segment apparatus (this last item is from a different lathe and requires re-fitting to this headstock).  

For Sale: Evans style Spiral Apparatus made by David Lindow of USA.  Comprising:- Front mounting Dividing Chuck of 96 divisions in increments of 6 (which will be custom made to fit your mandrel nose and your chucks); radial arm, set of 15 change gears of 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 48, 50, 53, 60, 72, 96, 120, & 144; double and single arbors with steel washers and central filling pieces (extra arbors available on request).

Price: $4400 US dollars or £2950 GB pounds  

 -LIMITED TO FIVE SETS ONLY-

Rear-mounting Dividing Chucks (custom made to fit your mandrel tail) with worm & wheel adjustment also long arm and Drive Shaft with Universal Joint will be available soon. Prices to be announced. 

For Sale: Books - THIS SECTION UNDER RECONSTRUCTION all in exceptional condition - Holtzapffel originals, full set plus the rare enlarged volume III;  'The Art of Double Counting on the Lathe' by Ash 1857;  'Eccentric Spiral Turning' by Robinson 1906;  'Handbook of Turning' by Gascoigne 1852 condition:-  'The Lathe and its Uses' by Lukin 6th Ed. 1883; plus others.  

WANTED: to communicate with the owner of Holtzapffel Lathe #830 as a quantity of brass & steel chucks which are numbered for that lathe are now available to be purchased.  - click here for contact details - 

Wanted:  Holtzapffel 2- stage Geometric Chuck

Wanted: Ornamental Chucks, Slide-rests, Cutting Frames, etc., for Holtzapffel lathe

Wanted:  Birch Ornamental Turning Lathe

Wanted:  all kinds of ornamental turning equipment

Enquiries in the first instance to John Edwards

Tel: 01732-355-479 or email to ornamental.turning[at]talktalk.net - please use the @ character in place of [at]

Last modified: April 25, 2009