Verschoyle mandrel lathe

Do you have a reproduction of the sales literature / user manual? I obtained one of these from lathes.co.uk and found it interesting. Lathes.co.uk has published most of the pictures but the handbook has several pages of text on the eccentric chuck and its use in ornamental turning. If I had an address for you I could send scans of these. 

My example did not have the eccentric chuck but arrived with a compound slide and tool rest. I imagine this was an addition made/sourced by a previous owner, the catalogue does not mention a compound slide. This one looks contemporary but has dark green paint, rather than the silver colour of the mandrel. 

I have the lever action tailstock and the boring bar tailstock. I have the three jaw chuck but am missing a few parts of the four jaw backplate/chuck. I have made copies of the missing jaw retaining nuts and will have to make two new jaws and adjustment screws. The jaws present a problem. The steel profile does not appear to be available these days and I do not have the equipment (or knowledge!) to reproduce it. 

The missing jaws were made from the same profile as the standard tool rests . I have the short and the long tool rests and have considered using the long version to make the missing chuck jaws. This goes against the grain so I will probably give this some more thought .... 

Best wishes 

Spexx