Fig. 533.
Wood turners sometimes have their lathes so made that the headstock can be turned end for end on the lathe shears, so that the face plate may project beyond the bed, enabling it to turn work of large diameter. A better method than this is to provide the projecting end of the lathe with a screw to receive the face plate as shown in [Fig. 533], which represents a lathe constructed by Walker Brothers of Philadelphia. At the end of the lathe is shown a hand rest upon a frame that can be moved about the floor to accommodate the location, requiring to be turned upon the work.
Fig. 534.
Fig. 535.
For very large work, wood-workers sometimes improvise a facing lathe, as shown in [Fig. 534], in which a is a headstock bolted to the upright b; c is the cone pulley, and e a face plate built up of wood, and fastened to an iron face plate by bolts. The legs a, of the tripod hand rest, [Fig. 535], are weighted by means of the weights b.
