Material

Gum or cherry disk, 3 1/4" diameter, 7/8" thick.

Exercise

To turn a rosette of the form and dimensions shown in Fig. 80.

Fasten the disk to a screw-plate of the kind shown in Fig. 89, and turn it to the form shown in Fig. 81. This is done with the skew chisel, except the recess that is \ inch in width, and this latter may be cut with the parting-tool. The work is next cut to the form shown in Fig. 80, the curves being cut with the skew chisel and the round-nose chisel, the operations being similar to those already performed.

Fig. 80.

Fig. 81.

Varnish and polish the work, and remove it from the screw-plate.

When a number of rosettes of this character are to be turned, a templet, similar in its use to that employed in the Sixth Exercise, may be prepared and used. Only the principal dimensions, such as those for the steps in Fig. 81, need be marked on it, and from these dimensions the operator can produce a sufficiently close degree of similarity in the successive pieces to serve his purpose.