The Principles and Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning

by John Jacob Holtzapffel

Book Overview

First paperback edition of definitive guide to turning on the complex or ornamental lathe, the high Victorian art par excellence. Text organized according to various cutting frames and chucks,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486265676
• ISBN13: 9780486265674
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

ornamental turning

this book is about big boys toys in the 1860s. i visited the lynn museum in ashburton new zealand 2009 again 2010. museum full of holtzapffel lathes and attachments. ornamental turning seems to becoming a lost art these days in new zealand. book arrived in verry good condition. i am well pleased with my purchase