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Keywords: Spiral turning lathe (Carpentry and Joinery, 1925).jpg A lathe for turning spirals as commonly seen on table legs in the Jacobean or Barley sugar reproduction styles particularly popular in the 1920s Cutting is done by a small rotating cutter in a tilted head As the work revolves slowly in the lathe a leadscrew as for a screwcutting lathe or in this case a rack arrangement traverses the workpiece axially beneath the fixed cutter 10 56 IV Specialized lathes |