Very nice unit, manual vfd, good for the heart.
Tour a bois / wood lathe antique | Hand Tools | Sherbrooke | Kijiji
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1876 Barnes #4.5 foot powered for metal and wood carving Bury QC 2K
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wow, what a neat old lathe, and looks unmolested .
Are there collectors for this stuff? I guess there is a collector for everything, but I think its a really small number. .I've found mostly machinist tools and equipment trades for what you can do with it, without much of a market for really old stuff. Then again, that one is small enough it would good in the reception area
Are there collectors for this stuff? I guess there is a collector for everything, but I think its a really small number. .I've found mostly machinist tools and equipment trades for what you can do with it, without much of a market for really old stuff. Then again, that one is small enough it would good in the reception area
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trlvn
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Collectors? Oh yeah!wow, what a neat old lathe, and looks unmolested .
Are there collectors for this stuff? I guess there is a collector for everything, but I think its a really small number. .I've found mostly machinist tools and equipment trades for what I can do you without much of a market for really old stuff. Then again, that one is small enough it would good in the reception area
The OldWoodWorkingMachines site has a form for old metalworking machines. In that, there are currently 49 threads with "Barnes" in the title:
https://www.owwm.org/search.php?key...opics&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
Not all of them are about Barnes treadle lathes but quite a few are!
Craig
(No, I don't have one. Given unlimited space and money though...)
I appreciate the engineering and craftsmanship…. Try and produce that by hand today using the same methods…….
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for sure. You sometimes encounter with some people this idea that machines outside of modern era were crude. Pfft. I think there was a lot more skill and discipline in training 100 years ago....journey men had to be able to run a file as well as someone presses a button today. I've got a Rivett 608 that dates from 1897, when new the factory claim was it could hold a tenth diameter over 6". How many today, despite all the modern advanced machines, can do that? Skills today are needed in different areas, but the craftsmen of old certainly weren't any less skilled nor were they unable to turn out as good or better quality machine tools as a made today