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Authentic Reproduction 18th Century Wood Lathe
Other than at Williamsburg and Sturbridge, are there any genuine 18th
century lathes in existence elsewhere in North America, preferably ones that have detailed online photos available for viewing, that one can look at. I kind of like the idea of peregrinating about the eastern half of this continent but I just don't have the time to visit more than one or two distant museums this coming year so I'd like to narrow my search to the most promising ones. My search is specific to the 18th Century. My Google and other Internet scrounging has unearthed a bunch of modern day adaptations but the museum folk I'm working with are very much concerned about creating as authentic a reproduction as humanly possible, and for that we need some genuine real articles to emulate. These historians love their documentation at least as much as their museum pieces, I'm afraid. ;-) We're not particularly interested in the "great wheel" lathes but more humble town and village types that were presumably as common as dirt at one time but which seem not to have survived in the larger, well known museums. Thanks, J. |
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