The Watchmakers' Lathe
by Ward L. Goodrich

"Its Use and Abuse." (As if people actually need advice in abusing a machine!) "A study of the lathe in its various forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses. For the student and apprentice."

Chapters include a brief history, construction of a watchmaker's lathe, the construction and use of the split chuck (collets), face plates and large chucks, cement chucks and cementing work into position, hand rests and slide rests, various forms of tailstocks and their uses, cutters and drills and how to make them, turning with graver and slide rest, grinding and polishing, snailing and damascening, multiple edged tools for continuous cutting, wheel cutting attachments for the watchmakers, turning and pivoting long thin work with the steady rest, idler pulleys and belts, counter shafts and foot wheels, development of the watchmaker's bench, and interesting advertising.

Yah, I know. You want to build full-size locomotive and start your own railroad. Where are you going to put the machine tools? In the back bedroom of your apartment? It's time to think small.

You get great how-to and illustrations for small lathes and their use. If you're interested in building a small lathe from scratch, you may very well want to include some of the proven ideas revealed here. A lot of this is old hat if you have a larger lathe and have been using it. But much of the material here is applicable to watchmakers and builders of other tiny, precision machinery.

This was reprinted years ago. The copy was typewritten, but the same illustrations were used. Here you get a digitally enchanced copy of all pages as they originally appeared. The paper used was cheap and is badly disintegrated. It could be in a few years there won't be too many originals left in reading condition.

Great lathe book! These machines are so small you can turn an extra bathroom into a machine shop! Interesting book. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 272 pages

No. 23519 ... $12.95