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Help Identifying Old Lathe

Alexanderman

Plastic
Joined
Nov 12, 2022
Hello, I obtained an old, very heavy wood lathe that used to be driven from a belt driven by a shaft in the ceiling. That belt drove a shaft off the tailstock which ran under the lathe to the headstock. I haven't been able to find any identifying marks except for a very beat up logo:
Logo.jpg
The head has a morse taper shaft surrounded by a 10tpi threaded shaft approximately an inch in diameter.
I will post pictures of it shortly. Google searches of Buckner Woodard turned up nothing useful.
Thanks,
Alex
 

specfab

Titanium
Joined
May 28, 2005
Location
AZ
You might want to back up and take a few shots of the whole machine. There's a lot of knowledge on this forum about machinery, but sometimes it needs a good deal more info than what you have provided to come up with the eureka moment. It is possible that the logo you photographed might be the dealer who sold the machine, not the manufacturer, and is long gone as a working operation. There is also a website for old woodworking machinery: www.owwm.org that may be of additional help.
 

Alexanderman

Plastic
Joined
Nov 12, 2022
Thanks for your reply. As I was taking pictures of it, I noticed that the tailstock has J G Blount Co Everett Mass on it. This and the link you provided seems to identify it as a Blount Co. Manual Training Lathe. I will clean up the photos and post them shortly.
Apparently, the J G Blount Co. patented a new tailstock design in 1900, though part of it (the long handle) is missing in mine.
 

DaveKamp

Titanium
Joined
Oct 3, 2004
Location
LeClaire, Ia
This would compare to: "Hi, there's an old car in my barn. Sticker on the trunk says "Schwind-Boeker". Please identify the car."

With a little less information, and fewer pictures, we could come to about the same conclusion... you have an old woodworking lathe.

Stand back about ten feet, point camera/phone, and click. Walk to one end, repeat, walk to other end, repeat. Bonus points to take a broom and brush off the worst of the sawdust, so that the framework, casting styling, controls, tool holding, etc., are actually visible, or if you're really serious, a gas-powered leaf blower and 30 seconds at full-throttle. Then look for casting marks, letters, numbers, dates... photo those.

Then post the photos here. Once guys see real pictures, someone recognizes the features, and you'll get a whole lot more for an answer.
 








 
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