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email: tony@lathes.co.uk
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Friedrich Schubert Watchmaker's Lathe
and production milling machine
Other watchmakers' Lathes
Manufactured in Wuppertal-Hahnerberg, 30 km to the east of Dusseldorg, Germany, the high-quality Friedrich Schubert watchmaker's lathe is uncommon, with few ever coming onto the second-hand market.
Of the lighter "Geneva" pattern, the Schubert had the usual "round" bed formed, in this case, with the flat on the top instead of as, more usually, at the back. Similar in form to the bed on some G.Boley lathes, both Schubert lathes shown below have fitted with a Boley compound slide rest assembly - or a very close copy. Unusually long for a Geneva-type lathe, the headstock took 8 mm drawbar-held collets.
All examples so far discovered have been fitted to a wooden base (in mahogany?) with a small storage compartment at the back and the collets exposed in rows along the front and right-hand sides.
Little information survives about this maker and should you own any machine by Friedrich Schubert, the writer would be interested to hear from you..
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Friedrich Schubert Uhrmacherdrehbank
und Produktionsfräsmaschine
Hergestellt in Wuppertal-Hahnerberg, 30 km östlich von Düsseldorf, Deutschland, ist die hochwertige Drehbank des Uhrmachers Friedrich Schubert selten und nur wenige werden jemals auf dem Gebrauchtmarkt angeboten.
Im leichteren "Genf" Muster hatte die Schubert die übliche "runde" Bettform, in diesem Fall jedoch mit der flachen Oberseite anstelle des üblicherweise hinteren Teils. Ähnlich wie das Bett einiger G.Boley Drehbänke waren beide unten gezeigten Schubert-Drehbänke mit einer Boley Compound-Schlitten-Rest-Montage ausgestattet - oder einer sehr ähnlichen Kopie. Ungewöhnlich lang für eine Genfer Drehbank nahm die Spindelstock 8 mm Zugstangen-Spannzangen auf.
Alle bisher entdeckten Beispiele wurden auf einer Holzbasis (aus Mahagoni?) montiert, mit einem kleinen Aufbewahrungsfach hinten und den Spannzangen in Reihen entlang der Vorder- und rechten Seiten.
Über diesen Hersteller ist wenig Information erhalten geblieben, und falls Sie eine Maschine von Friedrich Schubert besitzen, würde sich der Verfasser freuen, von Ihnen zu hören..
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The compound slide-rest assembly is not the makers but one by G.Boley
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Without careful covering of all exposed surfaces, the very last thing you want see to fastened to a watchmaker's lathe--a grinding wheel
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A Friedrich Schubert high-speed, precision production milling machine. Fitted with quick-action lever feed to both the vertical head and cross slide - with a screw feed for the left-to-right (X) travel, the machine was not intended for general work but most likely to have been fitted with a variety of jigs or other holding features that allowed single or "ganged-up" jobs to be machined in just a few steps.
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