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THIS book is written to explain and illustrate the practice of plain hand turning, and slide-rest turning as performed in engineers' workshops. The ornamental section of the craft is therefore entirely excluded. No attempt is made to describe all the numerous types of heavy lathes which are to be found in large workshops. The author tells us this in the preface, his object evidently being to treat the subject thoroughly from the works point of view, and not from that of the amateur manufacturer of ivory boxes and the like. The section on tools and tool angles is excellent, and will repay careful reading by turners; many, who are in all other respects good workmen, often make a fearful hash when grinding their tools.
Metal-Turning.
By a Foreman Pattern Maker. (London: Whittaker and Co., 1890.)
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L., N. [Book Reviews]. Nature 43, 175 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/043175a0
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