1.0 Man-Power Lathe?

[Dennis J Gooding]

A friend recently gave me a 1907 Barnes Co. catalog of woodworking machinery. Among the items for sale was a one man-power lathe and some turning tools and accessories. It’s hard to read the prices in the old pictures, but the lathe cost $40.00 and ach of the tools and accessories shown costs less than $2.00. It’s hard to read the prices in the old pictures, but the lathe cost $40.00 and ach of the tools and accessories shown costs less than $2.00.

 

[odie]

Looks like four pedals there......either you can adjust your position for the turning at hand......or, you could invite a friend!

-----odie-----

 

[Lou Jacobs]

The outboard pedal looks like a hand crank to me. For the shop owner with an apprentice? Pretty cool!

 

[Clifton C]

Odie, they have your screw chuck for a buck fifty...

 

[odie]

Odie, they have your screw chuck for a buck fifty...

Ha,ha......I noticed that!

When I saw that, I wondered why they didn't offer a standard faceplate.......?

-----odie-----

 

[Roger Wiegand]

About $1100 in inflation-corrected dollars for the lathe, fifty bucks for a $2 tool/

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

There may be a lathe similar to that in the AAW office in St. Paul.
Notice that the tapered accessories don't mention a Morse taper size. I demo on a line shaft driven lathe at a Steam Thrashers Reunion in Dalton, MN and that lathe has a unique taper that is somewhere between a #1 & #2 Morse taper.

 

[Earl McLain]

Look very similar to the one Roy Underhill uses at times on his TV show. Definitely would require sharp tools.
earl

 

[Dennis J Gooding]

Notice the turning tools. The seem to consist of skews and square-ended gouges like roughing gouges.

 

[Gary Beasley]

Theres similar tools at the Agricultural Museum in Tifton Ga. and the Agricultural Museum in Baton Rouge La. The ones in Baton Rouge are occasionally dusted off and used for demonstrations.

 

[Bob Sheppard]

I've long wanted one of those Barnes lathes, but they're out of my price range. I do think its interesting, with all the talk lately about being able to sit down to turn, that Barnes had that taken care of 100+ years ago.
One of these days, I'm going to make my own treadle lathe.

 

[Dennis J Gooding]

Many decades ago, my father started to make a lathe from an old treadle sewing machine, but he was interrupted by a need to move for business reasons.

 

[Jeremy Christian]

I like the dual banjo/rest setup!
I was just thinking, the other day about a sizing tool very similar to this... But for ends of pieces.