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	E-MAIL tony@lathes.co.uk Home Machine Tool Archive Machine Tools For Sale & Wanted Machine Tool Manuals Machine Tool Catalogues Guilder Model Builder Lathe USA Guilder Home Page Guilder Truck The photographs on this page show a particularly fine and original early Guilder (built in Kingswood Park, Poughkeepsie, New York) mounted on maker's legs that, whilst able to accept a motor, are without the socket and tapped holes used on later versions to mount a drill press.

A well-preserved and entirely original early Guilder Master Model Maker still mostly finished in its maker's maroon finish.

The novel design of the Guilder is clearly apparent in this front-elevation photograph

This early version of the lathe has it bed feet supported, like the later type, with a sheet steel tray to hold the motor but is without the socket and other mountings for the drill-press.

Whilst this early model used a nicely turned and knurled finger nut to hold the large pulley in place all the later versions seen by the writer had an ordinary, commercially-sourced wing nut.

Each handwheel on the lathe was turned from the solid and knurled on its outer face to afford oily fingers a grip; like all other small fastenings and fitting on the lathe these components were plated. Unfortunately the handwheels and their opposing collars were fastened to the shaft by pins - meaning that no adjustments could be made to reduce backlash as the faces wore in service.

The top slide was particularly heavy. Note the simple, hand-operated T-screw used to lock the swivel.

The machining marks show that beds were almost certainly ganged together and finished by a multi-faced cutter on a large milling machine

The design of the non-backgeared headstock was very simple with the spindle bored to accept 1/4" diameter rod. Two decently-long. plain parallel bronze bearings of the split type, with bolts to close down the gap, were used and a single overhung drive pulley mounted on the spindle's left-hand end. Thrust was absorbed in both directions by fibre washers fitted at each side of the front bearing.

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