Hello Everyone.
My intent is and always has been , to get the most out of the Legacy Ornamental
millI find it funny that the term Ornamental is such a huge field to study.
Holtzapffel's lathe, and the Rose Engine lathe along with many other OT
machines... all have there own versions of what is
Here's some threads of interest on this topic.
Start of an interesting thread regarding rotary table patterns.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/legacy-ornamental-mills/CMB8EID_rGo/_Xyynt5yUREJ
Additional Rotary Table Patterns and start of the math.
A really long time ago I considered the option of making a rocking attachment
that would sit between the rails as well, but it's a dead end. I even thought
about a swinging option from the bottom rails that would at least put a rose
engine type motion and put the router in it natural position.
hey tim!... I might think in this instance, as to what is trying to be
achieved, the ideal solution is to have a true, "rocking" headstock
assembly, where the headstock rocks in unison with the tailstock...no easy
task, for sure...and it just might not be feasible(i.e. impossible) on an
I forgot, Spirograph patterns are a different story. I have a complicated
solution that is limited. I'm still looking for the simple and flexible
answer. When using the rotary table hooked up to the spindle and the leadscrew
engaged, you can only achieve roulette curves. See wiki for that
Pumping the x and y axis is something I been working on for a long time. I
showed that pumping the x axis is easy in a past message thread. It was done
on my rotary table. I used a simple fixed swash plate on the lead screw and
used a small bearing on the router carriage. I used chain and
hey tom!
I can't say I remember steve, but I was a member of the
ornamental turners society some 30 years ago...attended several, yearly
symposiums... then, it seems the group was absorbed into the AAW, then
seemed to fade away...good stuff back then, but a bit more simplistic
Hi Joe B
Sterve White is a past president of the Ornamental Turners of America, a
professional tool & die maker an endless experimenter with new ideas and a
tireless booster of Ornamental Turning. Together with David Lindow also a
past president he makes and sells several highly accurate machines
I am starting a dedicated topic to this subject because this has the
potential to get very interesting as well as challenging, but it was
inspired by curt's find of a video on you tube of the rose engine lathe...
that video is one of a series of videos, dedicated to the rose engine
lathe...
