Charles W. Wilder manufactured his own patented version of Waymoth's variety lathe during the mid-to-late 1870s. For more information, see the entry for A. D. Waymoth & Co. Levi Wilder may have been a successor.

Information Sources

• Patents provide several data points documenting the connections and competition between Charles W. Wilder, A. D. Waymoth, and others.
• Price, Lee & Co.'s Fitchburg Directory for 1879 carries a text ad for "Charles W. Wilder, Variety Wood Turner, and Manufacturer of Wilder's Patent Lathe, 48 Water street, Fitchburg."
• The report on the Fourteenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1881, has the following entry.

  Charles W. Wilder, Fitchburg, Mass. — Variety Woodturning Lathe.—This is an improvement on the lathe generally known as the Waymoth lathe. The evening parts are of hardened steel; the tool holder is controlled in a new manner, by a strap instead of the rack and pinion as formerly, working much easier and with less of fatigue to the operator. There are also several minor improvements. Silver Medal.

• A 1925 edition of Iron Age has the following obituary:

  Charles W. Wilder, inventor of the Wilder lathe, died at his home in Fitchburg, Mass., on Aug. 25 in his seventy-ninth year. He was a native of Wilkonsville, Mass.