On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:55 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 11:52pm (Joe*Bleau) doth
sayeth:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. snip

I'm not interested in one myself, but last time I looked in a Sears
catalog, or maybe it was last time I was in a Sears, they still carried
them. Admitted that was quite a bit back, but I'm wondering if anyone
has checked to see if they still carry them.

However, somewhere, I have seen, or have, plans to make a jig that
will do the same. Somewhere I've got plans for a jig for routing flutes
too, but something like that would be a lot easier to figure out. So
some googling might come up with plans so you can make one - be a lot
more flexible in use than a store-bought one, and you could paint it any
color you wanted - I recommend yellow.. .

Looked for one a while back--not on the Sears site or in the Sears
store or in the Sears catalog--it's an ex-product.

Legacy makes a number of ornamental mills that are somewhat upmarket
but serve a similar function http://www.legacywoodworking.com/ and
there's a cheap clone
http://www.houseoftools.com/product.htm?pid=169889.

The Craftsman was a relabelled Trend Routerlathe or some ancestor
thereof http://www.trendmachinery.co.uk/routerlathe/ but it appears
to have been discontinued. The manual is available for download from
Trend and they claim that they still stock all spares.

Here's a description of a big one that someone built for his own
use--no plans though
http://www.castlesimon.com/Projects/OrnamentalMill/tabid/56/Default.aspx.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0762101857 contains plans for
a shop made spiral turning jig.