Peter Byrne wrote:
> I am getting set to make some bedside cabinets to match an existing
> Victorian dressing table. I have done this sort of thing before, always
> getting a pretty good match of original mouldings, panels and beads with
a
> #55 or one of my motley collection of hollows and rounds and panel
> raisers. This time I have the challenge of replicating vertical stopped
> flutes on the legs.

and BugBear replied:
Sounds like a matter for a "moulding box" (AKA turning box) and
a scratch stock :-)

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I expect there will be some "wazzat den?" replies to this out there.
I have been thinking about making a mo(u)lding box myself to create
the flutes on turned tapered legs for some Louis XVI furniture that
LOML has (reluctantly) asked me to build. (The bed she really likes
costs about $5,000 so she is willing to give me a shot first.)

Here is how Whelan describes molding/turning boxes:

"A form of the scratch stock may be used in a MOLDING BOX, an
open-top box that contains the piece to be worked and whose
sides serve to guide the two fences of its scratch stock. The
workpiece may be mounted on centers (as in a lathe) in such a
box and rotated after the cut is finished, to make repetitive
cuts on different sides or around the circumference of a round
piece.  This is called a TURNING BOX.  It may be fitted with a
device to maintain the angle of the workpiece--ranging from a
simple wedge to an index plate such as is used on gear cutting
machines.  Surprisingly ornate pieces may be formed with this
simple tool."

My ASCII interpretation (end view):

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