Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
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

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread Tim
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.

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread Tim
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.

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
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

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread Tim Krause
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

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread Tim Krause
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

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
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

Re: the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread Tom Dotta
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

the legacy as a high tech ornamental lathe...the next level?

2018-02-12 Thread 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
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...