Vincenti Decoys on Ducks, Dogs & Decoys TV

[ipscjoe]

It really isn't a lathe, I remembered seeing a show on tv. that showed the Springfield Armory. They mentioned the man that invented the machine..He invented it duplicate gunstocks.

It really is a shaping machine....The fact that the stock spins between centers is imaterial because the cutting is done by a wheel that moves.

From the Spingfield Armory site:

[ipscjoe]

"The so-called Blanchard lathe [actually, its a shaper since the cutter is a rotating wheel] works much a modern key-cutting machine with a stock blank [a rough gunstock form] in place of the key blank."

" The Blanchard lathe is one of the great inventions on the road to Americas industrialization. Springfield Armory NHS has the only surviving example, dated 1822. "

I just wanted to know who made it...I was interested in buying one......That's all......thanks

[ipscjoe]

Can you please tell me what type of carving machine that is in the video....

Love the show by the way.

[blwalt17]

if you're referring to the one at like 4 seconds in, it's a lathe.

[ipscjoe]

it's not just a lathe....I have 4.....It's duplicating a decoy pattern .....lathes turn thngs that are round...decoys are not round.....thanks though..

[blwalt17]

it is a lathe, there is a decoy pattern that is not shown. the saw is cutting with the decoy pattern.