Toolholder with clamps for square
- Made:
- London
- maker:
- Holtzapffel and Company
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Toolholder with clamps for square, and gouge tools, for ornamental lathe
This is a form of tool holder suitable for an ornamental lathe.
A square bar, clamped in the slide rest, carries at its end an adjustable inclined head-piece secured by a screw. To the end of this head the pieces of steel forming the cutters are clamped by a strap and set screw. Two heads are provided, one for holding gouge-shaped cutters, and the other for cutters made from square bar.
Details
- Category:
- Hand and Machine Tools
- Object Number:
- 1910-12
- Materials:
- gunmetal, wrought iron and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- type:
- clamp
- credit:
- J.C. Stevens (Auction Sales)
