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The Geometry of Turning

Illustrated silhouette portrait for Li Wenhao by Li Wenhao

Where the tool meets the work: the geometry behind every cut on a lathe, from first pass to finish.

Published
April 16, 2019
Publisher
Northgate Press
Pages
384
ISBN
978-1-946001-01-7

A lathe solves one small geometry problem over and over: where the tool meets the work, and what that intersection costs. This book works through that problem from the first cut to the last, with the arithmetic kept honest and the diagrams drawn to scale.

Written for machinists who want to know why a number works, not only that it does.

Illustrated silhouette portrait for Li Wenhao

About the author

Li Wenhao

Lathe hand turned five-axis programmer; writes about the geometry a shop actually uses.

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