This is a overview of a lathe that I rescued in November 2008. I do not tend to name tools often, but this one has such “womanly” lines and to carry the 1800′s theme… Martha it is~!
This lathe has a patent date of 1884 and was built by the F.E. Reed & Co. from Worcester, Mass. It was put into service sometime around 1890 in Orange, Mass. So far the lathe has been cleaned a little on the exposed metal, but otherwise it’s as found. My plans are to build a proper line-shaft that is ceiling mounted and clear off the brackets mounted to the lathe right now. Once it has been set up, I will then start the restoration. The lathe will then be re-painted black as that was the original color. I also hope to find someone to help to re-pour the babbitt bearings before the restoration is done.
I have a lot of the original tooling not shown in this video. These include all the change gears, the steady rest, two face-plates, three chucks, and a Civil War era key-less chuck. Stay tuned for a video once it has been resored and I have the line-shaft & “station”
set up for the new lathe.
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