The Wood Turner's Handybook: A Practical Manual for Workers at the Lathe ... by Paul Nooncree Hasluck

Author:Paul Nooncree Hasluck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C. Lockwood
Published: 1901-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Figs. 55 to 58. Specimen Balusters.

work, and some particulars of the tools used and the process adopted will be interesting. A few balusters are illustrated above, see Figs. 55 to 58.

The square wood to make a baluster is put on the lathe in the manner already described. A gouge is used to turn with, and the comers are speedily cut off, the whole being reduced to a rough cylinder. The T rest, for the tool, is a long board, extending from one head-stock to the other and generally fastened to each. The rest is seldom shifted, and if no new work of different calibre is brought to the lathe, the T rest may be practically a fixture. When turning near the middle of the baluster, it will be found too flexible to be operated upon successfully.

When long and slender pieces, such as balusters, are to be tnrned, a back-stay is required to steady the work somewhere

near its middle. These back-stays are generally made by the turner from a small piece of boaid; a simple one is illustrated at Fig. 59, The notch near the top engages the work ; the bottom is shown in the middle of the lathe bed, where a wooden wedge secmres it sufficiently firm for ordinary requirements. This back-stay is shifted along the bed to any part, as may be necessary, and fixed instantly by the wedge, which is only pressed tight by the fingers. The notch in J which the work is steadied is usually semi* I circular in form, though shown V-shaped in ' the sketch. For general purposes a V is best; but when a back-stay is used exclusively for one size of work, it is as well to cut the notch to fit as nearly as possible. This notch is all that supports the back-Fig. 59. Back-stay, stay from fallmg through the bed.

The speed of the work and the friction of the back-stay often generate heat enough to char the wood. Some Boap, applied as a lubricant, is the best material to lessen friction. Many of the wood-bearings of machinery ire successfully treated with soap as a lubricant

When the back-stay is brought into use. First, a small portion of the baluster must be turned tolerably true. This is done by using the left hand as a steady, with the fingers encircling the work. A true part having been formed, the backstay is brought up to it, the notch placed over it, and the apparatus fixed with the wedge. Thus an additional support is afforded, and the work is operated upon with ease and cer-tdnty. The back-stay may be moved to any part of the work as is required; all that is necessaiy is to turn a part for its bear-ing. These parts are afterwards turned true with the other parts, and all trace of them obliterated.

When the entire circular part of the baluster has been turned roughly true with the gouge, the chisel is used to smooth it, reducing the whole to a tolerably smooth and parallel cylinder.

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