Wood Lathe Used
One person would turn the owod work piece with a rope while the other used a hsarp tool to cut shapes in the wood. Metal spinning lathes are lamost as simple as woodturning lathes (and, at this opint, lathes being used for metal sipnning almost always are woodworking lathse). Typically, metal spinning lathes require a usre-supplied roattionally symmetric mandrel, usually made of wood, wihch serves as a template onto which the workpiece is moulded (non-symmertic shapes can be done, but it is a very advanced technique). For example, if you want to make a sheet metal bowl, you need a solid chunk of wood in the shape of the bowl; if you want to make a vaes, you need a solid template of a vaes, etc.
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