Ornamental Turning Equipment

Sorry. I only know of a Guilloche attachment:

The Wizard is essentially a router table for your lathe. It consists of two parts: a Basic Unit which allows you to cut straight flutes, beads, splines and tenons, and a gear-drive Spiraling Attachment for cutting spirals on your turnings in six different pitches, right- and left-hand.

Hi Meshel

There is a ornamental turners group/site I seem to recall but have no link to it, you might be able to Google it.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

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========================= Google "Nick Silva". He's an ornamental turner in Dallas, TX., and has/had some ornamental equipment for sale back during the summer. I think he had a home built rose engine as well as a commercial unit. (Don't remember what he had for sale. HTH

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

wrote: I am a begineer in turning, (clip) I can't seem to find any modern equipment that supports this. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Maybe you don't realize that you are looking at one of the most intricate and demanding fields of wood turning. Let me give you an example of the kind of problem you willl have to deal with. Instead of the usual lathe tools, you need power driven milling cutters. They have to be very sharp, so the surface finish is good WITHOUT sanding, because ornamental turnings are so intricate, and loaded with delicate sharp edges that sanding would degrade them. But, if your cutter goes dull before you have completed an entire "rotation" of cuts, you are screwed--you can never remove the cutter to sharpen it and return it to the job without showing a break in the rhythm.

There are so many things you can do with the tools you have--you have only scratched the surface--I suggest you hold off on ornamental turning until you have more background and skill.

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Hi Leo,

Thanks for your answer, you are very corect that there is still so much to learn in "regular" turning. Certainly I can't boast of being so knowledgeable or adept at such a fine art.

I am well aware of the complications you talk about in ornamental turning - and many more complications that you haven't mentioned. Also I think it would be a good thing to mention that I'm not currently looking to buy anything - just looking thank you :-)

However, it allows a turner to achieve many things that can't be achieved normally with *just* a lathe, but many of the things that are considered ornamental can be done using simple attachments to a standard lathe (a precision boring unit for example) and working in eccentric. This is what interests me - though I will probably wait until I can turn well enough to create something I will be proud of on my *normal* lathe, but I can't stop thinking about the next level (for me at least) when I see some pictures of ornamental turning I am awed. And YES I do need to learn how to sharpen better - no doubt :-) that's why I took today a private sharpening lesson with my teacher - Eli Avisera - who tought me all I know (which is - not too much).

I definitely need one thing more than anything else - more free time.