08-07-2017, 07:33 AM
(08-05-2017, 05:19 PM)rocktupac Wrote: Cheryl, that's absolutely beautiful! Your determination is incredible
And after seeing/reading this thread, there's no way in hell that ancient shields were turned on a lathe! It seemed like a chore to do it with modern machinery, I can't imagine this on a wooden pole or bow lathe. No way.
It would make perfect sense if a continuous drive (which could be achieved quite easily, rather then a bow or a pole) was used, as the weight of the blank would also act like a fly wheel aiding the turner in his work.... having said that George Lailey the last professional pole lathe turner, turned 17 inch bowls on a pole lathe in a "nest" of bowls where multiple bowls are made one inside the other....
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867