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Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - fletcherj - 11-21-2015
http://youtu.be/zfpo3MasyKQ
After watching this guy sharpen on stones so far out of flat it makes you wonder if machinists grade flat is a North American affection.
Re: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - Scott W - 11-21-2015
Awesome. Thank you.
Re: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - MichaelMouse - 11-22-2015
Tools are curved, means only one point on the surface of even a flat stone can be tangent. Rest means nothing.
Now, lapping a planar surface, flat comes in handy.
Re: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - ncosman - 11-22-2015
That's bonkers! Thanks for the share!
Re: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - Lynford in Reno - 11-22-2015
Around 1500 Leonardo Da Vinci designed a continuous rotation lathe. Seems like all earlier lathes were reciprocating like this one, some with one pedal and a spring pole and others with a bow wrapped spindle.
https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+...sEefT6a0B8-M%3A
Re: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - Acorn - 11-24-2015
Very interesting video. Thanks for finding this one and sharing.
Re: Chinese foot powered lathe and traditional bowl turning. - Window Guy - 11-25-2015
Interesting video, thanks for sharing !
Steve