Oval turning

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Oval turning is a technique used in the wood turning trade.

The oval cups and boxes made of ivory in the treasury of the Saxon electors and kings, the Green Vault in Dresden Castle , are special examples . The oldest pieces there date from the 16th century.

Until the middle of the last century, oval picture frames were still made in turner's workshops and frame manufacturers. The oval turner was a well-paid specialist among the turners.

Oval turning has always been done on the oval or oval turning mechanism . It was also used to produce everyday items for which the oval - more precisely elliptical - shape is particularly suitable, such as a bread bowl or numerous other objects. The oval movement was replaced by more productive technologies decades ago. Around 1980 a development began to replace the old, slowly and noisily running oval movement with a modern mechanism that runs quietly and quickly, but still requires the old manual skills.

You can still find oval products today, but they are made of plastic or injection molding or are made with computer-controlled machines .

literature

  • Hugo Knoppe: Manual of the oval turning shop. With special consideration of the production of oval frames (Edition Libri Rari). Verlag Schäfer, Hanover 1986, ISBN 3-88746-143-6 (unchanged reprint of the Leipzig edition 1920).

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