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PREFACE.
NOT unnaturally might the question be asked, " Of what
use is it to multiply books on the Art of Turning?
Holtzapffel and Evans have covered the entire ground, and
taught all that it is possible to teach upon the subject; and,
for such as cannot afford to purchase the above costly volumes,
there are several smaller treatises of a more elementary and
less expensive character." All this is true, yet there may exist
a demand for more. Just as a new shop is frequently opened
in the midst of other old-established ones, and may, and very
often does, obtain at least its fair share of patronage, so is
our little, -unpretending volume presented to the public, and
asks very humbly a little of the patronage which the world of
Amateur Turners is able to bestow. If it tells a tale already
told by others, it may possibly tell it in a different way. If it
gives a lesson upon the principles and practice of Turning, it
is quite possible that such lesson is more simply and intelligibly
conveyed than it has been by previous teachers. This has,
indeed, been the special intention and aim of the writer-to
meet the frequent complaint that there is no work sufficiently
elementary for a tyro who as yet knows nothing at all about
a Lathe, and to whom such terms as Mandrel, Headstock, or
Chuck, convey no meaning whatever. In the present volume
no knowledge of Lathes or tools is pre-supposed, and there
fore everything is explained in detail, with the necessary illustrations. The book will suffice to set any tyro to work, and
actual practice must do the rest. We give the Alphabet of
the Turner's Art, and the work of the reader must be to make
the necessary combinations of letters to illustrate the very
beautiful language of which it is capable. But it must not be |
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forgotten that you may put a pen into the hand of a child, and the result may be a blotted and unsightly page; and to show a learner how to hold a brush will not make him an artist. And however carefully we may explain the riaethod of working, we cannot give to the beginner the skill that will make him a Turner - all we can do is to give him a fair start, and guard him against error; and this we have in the following pages endeavoured faithfully to do.
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