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Turning some Lignum Vitae on the Lindow Rose Engine. It’s one of my favorite woods. The neck was pumped using a universal cutting frame turned at an angle, the ball was done with an eccentric cutter, the end was decorated with a universal cutter set horizontally, and the operation shown here is using a 120 degree drill from @jspencer.co in my new drilling frame to accentuate the work of the universal cutter. The finished you see have not been sanded or oiled; they are as they came off of the tool. BTW, this is the real Lignum Vitae species that is rapidly becoming unobtainium. #lindowmachineworks #lindowclockmaker #ornamentalturninglathe #roseengine #roseenginelathe #engineturning #engineturned #lignumvitae.

This headstock automatic slow speed drive and stop for a Holtz ornamental turning lathe had a worn worm which had to be replaced. The challenge was that the worm had three leads (starts) of 5 TPI. Getting the three leads even was relatively simple using the spindle from a @sherlineproducts index head held in a collet with a dead center and their faceplate which conveniently has three slots. We were then able to turn the threads between centers which allowed us to reintroduce the shaft in the same position left to right while evenly indexing the thread leads. The shaft was then hardened. Interestingly, the original part was hard at the bearings but soft everywhere else including the worm. We look forward to using it soon. #ornamentalturninglathe #lindowmachineworks #ornamentalturning #holtzapffel #sherlineproducts

Machining mahogany on the Index milling machine. This will be a pulley.

MADE Lathe rosettes! Columbus Machine Works has recently increased their space and added machines. Amongst those machines is a Haas VF7. The rosette blank is placed in the machine and a probe measures each rosette bore before centering ensuring that each rosette is concentric regardless of any discrepancies. The profile is then machined on the OD and after that the face profile is cut using a small ball end mill. Each subsequent cut is made so close to the previous that the finished realized are better than we have ever seen. On top of this, switching from a four axis machine to this allows us to generate the true rosette profile from the drawing rather than an approximation. This operation alone averages over 2 hours per rosette. After this @whitestonecreates hand finishes them. They are pictured as they came off of the machine. #roseengine #roseenginelathe #haasvf7 #engineturning #ornamentalturninglathe #columbusmachineworks #rosettes #metalart #metalwork #machinetools #artisticmachining

Another of the recent small tall clock run featuring the four season dial painted by Kathi Seiwert. #lindowclockmaker #lindowmachineworks #tallclock #horology #clockmaking #horologicalart

We are proud to have @vanbricht using our machine on their incredible watches. If you’re not following them you should be. #vanbricht #guilloche #guillochedial #engineturning #lindowroseengine #roseengine #roseenginelathe

One of the 6 recently finished tall clocks I made with the help of @lorne.koehler.marsh . Dial painting by Kathi Seiwert. #lindowclockmaker #lindowmachineworks #tallclock #clockmaking #horology

The tools of the trade and how we use them....... @schwarzwalduhr.lorne is getting baptized with fire on this Olympia music box motor. Not only did he have to dovetail in 3 teeth to the 6” plus great wheel, but he also had to make a worm drive wheel. Dovetailing in the teeth is becoming routine for him now so I’ll focus on the drive wheel. The material is .040” nickel silver. The blank was cut down on the Hardinge DV 59 lathe then set into the Wells Index milling machine with a Sherline CNC rotary table. The teeth had an angle to match the endless screw (worm) it was driving so the rotary table had to be tipped at 15 degrees. An escape wheel cutter for American time and trike movements matched perfectly, but it had to be set at center- no small job as there was nothing to reference. The 21 teeth were cut into the .560” diameter blank, and then it was stacked onto the pinion with the Malcolm Wild clockmaker’s staking tool. Once the pivots were properly polished the fly spun freely with the smallest of pressure. We had to guess at the OD as the original wheel had been compromised, but we were fortunate to have guessed well the first time around. We only cut one wheel. The biggest part of the job was cleaning up the mess from the recommended “Plumbago” graphite lubricant that was everywhere. To see the mammoth spring being dealt with see my previous posts. Not bad work for a rookie. We lost our shirt on this job, but education is always expensive. I hope to soon make some music boxes with bells for a joint project with @stephenlfranke so I’m sure I’ll soon be glad for the knowledge. #lindowclockmaker #lindowmachineworks #clockmaking #horology #musicbox #musicboxes #wormwheel #endlessscrew

The monstrous.035” thick by 1.750” wide music machine spring going back in. Posts from the rest of the job including a new nickel silver worm drive wheel will be put up by @schwarzwalduhr.lorne on his IG abd FB. See my previous post for it coming out. #lindowclockmaker

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