TURNED WOOD
No. 144.
Mouldings are used for decorative and divisional purposes in various materials, and to some extent their character is affected by the formative process involved.
Wood-turning
Thus in wood-turning the general profiles are kept fairly soft, taking usually, as in the case of stair rails and furniture legs, the baluster form. As a rule there is little variation between the maximum and minimum diameters.
The baluster shafts have bases and capitals of curved profiles, with intervening fillets, which latter may be fairly sharp, as they are by their position protected from damage.
Metal Turning
Turning is also employed in metal work, the stems and bodies of Dutch candelabra, both standard and hanging, being originally cast as to general form and finished in the lathe.