Source for sizing tool

I have seen a pic of a sizing tool the clamps over the end of a parting tool. I want to make sizing cuts to hasten the speed at which I can "duplicate" some spindle work. That is, use the parting tool to just proud of the finished size, then hog the skew / scraper / gouge to the rough shape / dimension with no worry of going undersized.

BUT I can't seem to find one in any of my catalogs. Since I don't even know the correct name of the tool, Googling is not my friend today.

Bill

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Bill in Detroit
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Packard sells it, and you had the name right.

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Gerald Ross

You might be disappointed. I got the chance to try someone else's and found it lacking. You are stuck with a true scraping action when using it. I use a parting tool a lot when doing spindle work -- I use a 3/8 beading and parting tool to hog off wood which I often find faster than using a roughing gouge (excuse me -- a SPINDLE roughing gouge). But, I make a peeling cut with it and with every other parting tool I use. You can't do that with the sizing tool attached -- it starts as a peeling cut but ends up a 90 degree scrape. BTW, on spinning top handles I turn beads with a 1/8 straight-sided parting tool if that is what I happen to have in my hand -- you would not be able to tell it from one cut with a skew -- believe me.

Anyway, for sizing I use a parting tool in one hand (the left) and a caliper (I have 5 or 6 cheap ones) in the other hand. For me it is faster than using a sizing tool. Further, I have enough so that I can set one for each major dimension I need to turn. That could get expensive if you were using the sizing tool.

Bill

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>> Interestingly enough, I never got Geralds response ... I'm glad Bill included it!

It would appear that Craft Supplies no longer carries this item.

I have a good design for candlesticks that I want to make a lot of copies of and the sizing tool can help me 'get close' in a hurry with no worry.

So, thanks for the link (bedan and sizing tool ordered tonight) as well as the additional input from the others.

Bill

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For some reason two copies showed up here. I guess I got yours and mine.

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Gerald Ross

Hi Bill

Got a address here for the tool you're looking for

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I have never used it, as sp> I have seen a pic of a sizing tool the clamps over the end of a parting

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