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Summary:: Hand rest, used to support the cutting tool as it cut the timber on the lathe. Circa 1900.

Used in the woodturning business of Adolph Bruhn & Son, South Melbourne, 1970-1990, and previously in Little Collins Street, Melbourne. The business made a wide range of wooden products, including tables and architectural mouldings, and undertook specialist turning tasks. Part of a collection of nearly 900 items, including a lathe, cutting tools, hand tools, products, workshop fittings, office equipment, portraits, and an accounts ledger.
Description:: Round, solid metal pole welded on slight angle to thin rectangular metal length, curving to edge at top.

Found in Area B1 of workshop, resting near the lathe.

Discipline:	History
Dimensions:	3.00 cm (Height), 19.00 cm (Width), 71.50 cm (Length)

Tagged with:	german communities, german immigration, tools, woodturning industry
Themes this item is part of:	Bruhn Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection
Primary Classification:	TRADES
Secondary Classification:	Woodturning
Tertiary Classification:	tool accessories
User:	Adolph Bruhn & Son, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1900-1970
User:	Adolph Bruhn & Son, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1970-1990