Small wooden model of a Chinese lathe
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Small wooden model of a Chinese lathe
The model was constructed in the Museum after a sketch made by Mr E. J. Jordan in Hankow in 1909. This lathe, which with the exception of the iron centres is made entirely of wood, consists of a long rectangular frame on trestles. One centre is embedded in one of the end members and the other is in a cross-piece which is wedged in grooves in the sides of the frame and can be moved to accommodate work of different lengths. The tool-rest is a bar which is supported at one end on the cross-piece and at the other on a movable bridge.
The work is rotated by an assistant who pulls alternately on the ends of a cord passing a few times round the work. As in the bow lathe and pole lathe the turner can only cut when the work is rotated in one direction.
