new tool for carving on turnings.

Those of us who bought a 1" 8TPI are lucky enough to buy bolt, jam nut and saw the head off to fit the banjo.

With a bolt in the banjo you can't tilt the piece downward to work on = it, only spin it around. Regardless, I'd think that using the banjo = would put the workpiece too high for carving.

My solution was to modify a Wilton PowrArm #300 that I've threaded to 1" = x 8 and mounted it to my workbench. You can still find these in eBay = once in awhile or get the new model #301 from MSC for about $300. They = have light-duty and medium-duty versions, too. Dan

Depends on the carving and method, I guess, and the headstock gives the right angle and index functions.

I take it you don't believe in the finesse work happening above the xiphoid, the force below? Or is it just because you're old, like me, and the bifocals need to be adjusted for closer work?

I have a bolt through a block which I put in the vise for those times when I'm texturing with my carving tools rather than rotary.

With a bolt in the banjo you can't tilt the piece downward to work on it, only spin it around. Regardless, I'd think that using the banjo would put the workpiece too high for carving.

My solution was to modify a Wilton PowrArm #300 that I've threaded to 1" x 8 and mounted it to my workbench. You can still find these in eBay once in awhile or get the new model #301 from MSC for about $300. They have light-duty and medium-duty versions, too. Dan