Photo Index - Fay & Scott - patternmakers' lathe

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Fay & Scott
Dexter, ME

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Lathe, Wood
Machine Size:	24" by 10 feet
Submitted By:	Robert Bernstein

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	patternmakers' lathe
Date of Manufacturer:	circa 1900
Serial Number:	none known
Last Updated	8/8/2007 11:11:47 PM

Comments:

I was given this lathe by my father, a part owner of the Samuel J. Creswell Iron Works in Philadelphia, in about 1978 and brought it up to Vermont and, in about 1980, installed it in small woodshop I built there. The photographs--taken August, 2007--are in this shop, which I have not used since March, 1998.

The lathe is shown on a late 1940's floor plan of the Creswell pattern shop and is listed in a 1951 appraisal of the Iron Works. I have several Polaroid late 1970's shots of this lathe dimsantled though in situ in the disused Iron Works pattern shop. In a sense it has been in my family's hands since my father brokered the deal for the Iron Works in 1952. I suspect the Iron Works purchased this lathe quite a few years prior to these dates.

There are two tags on the headstock, The first states 'Fay & Scott, Builders, Dexter, Me.' The second 'Girard Machine & Tool, Machinery and Tools, 491 North Third Street, Philadelphia. Pa., A.J. Kensler, Manager.'

My wife--who died in 1993--helped me install this lathe in the present shop in 1980. I made the countershaft for the lathe at that time as--though I have the original countershaft for this lathe for space reasons I needed one with smaller hangers.

There is a great deal of tooling with this lathe including knives, woodworking tool rests of several sizes, inboard and outboard face plates, cup and spur centers, etc; these have not yet been photographed. The headstock is made to swivel upon a plate for tapers and has two fine brass material spindle boxes.

More photographs of this fine machine are available.

Photo 1:

Comments: overall shot from near tailstock end
Source: R. Bernstein

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Photo 2:

Comments: headstock
Source: R. Bernstein

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Photo 3:

Comments: cross-slide and compound rest
Source: R. Bernstein

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