I need to turn some long (about 30") very slim spindles. I need to make a center steady for this project and wonder if anyone can direct me to a drawing to aid me in design.
Thanks - Doug
I need to turn some long (about 30") very slim spindles. I need to make a center steady for this project and wonder if anyone can direct me to a drawing to aid me in design.
Thanks - Doug
Hello DA.
I've got some pictures of a steady rest that I built. Though I don't have plans for it, it's pretty simple to build. If you'd like more detailed/higher quality pictures, let me know and I'll email them to you.
Pictures of the tool may be viewed using the links below:
-- Ali T. Borahan AliSails - Fine Wood Artistry & Custom Woodcrafts Web URL:
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Hello Doug,
I made one like the one in Ali's pictures and it worked fairly well. Then I made another similar to the one here
Hi.
You could also have a look at my homemade steady rest. Check it out at
Your steady rest turned out better than my last project! Nice job.
Tim
In discussing steady rests as with lathes and most other things in this world, it is well to define terms. I mean that the design and purpose of a 'steady rest' varies widely, and one size doesn't fit all. Some are so massive you can't lift them up onto the bed, and are really circumferential holding devices for large heavy open ended objects or blanks too long for the lathe bed to accomodate the tailstock. Others are used to prevent vibration of a whippy blank. Remember that a trophy lathe, no matter how heavy, stout of heart and expensive, can't prevent a slender piece from vibrating. These kinds of 'steady rests' also vary from fixed supports in a frame, string, or a piece of smooth hardwood wedged in the ways. Your fingers can be used as a travelling steady simlar to the steady fixed to a cross slide apron on an engine lathe. Whew! guess I jumped the track re Doug's question. I started out only to mention Leo L's good suggestion to adjust the rollers on rotating arms instead of adjusting slotted carriers. Speaking of which, I guess I got _carried away. ;) Arch
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