If I’m to understand you correctly using different size template followers or stylus is to match the dia of the cutter being used to get a accurate reproduction of the template without it your copy would not be the same also when using enclosed templates you want your follower to fit neatly inside the template to my knowledge they came in 1/8,1/4,1/2 and 1inch
Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of MWF Sent: Sunday, 4 February 2018 1:34 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Do you use your template follower On your Legacy Ornamental Mill If I remember correctly, Legacy had several different sized template followers that would be mounted outboard to follow the template. Does anyone know the various sizes - and why you would use one size over another? Obviously, a smaller follower would get down into tighter "valleys"/coves - but why use a larger one? Thanks. Mac _____ _____ -----Original Message----- From: 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills Sent: Feb 3, 2018 7:14 PM To: Legacy-Ornamental-Mills Subject: Do you use your template follower On your Legacy Ornamental Mill Hello Everyone. an Idea cam to me today, (while driving home form work.) I have not done this on my Legacy but have done it with my Lathe. The idea is to use the Template follower on the Legacy as a Template Maker to produce template that you can reproduce. If you put an already made spindle in between the centers on the Legacy, then set up a blank template ( just a sheet of piece of wood/hardboard/plastic) on the template holder. If you put a copying router bit, (or any bit with a ball bearing guide on it.) You can trace the turning. Now all that you need to do it , put a pencil or marker mounted on the Legacy's follower (where the guild normally is placed.) When you run your ball bearing bit along the spindle, the follower (with the marker on it.) will trace the spindle, leaving you with the marker's out-line of your new template. then all you need to do is cut it out, and then re-mount the template in your original location, to make copy/ re-production of the spindle. Now what can make this fun, is Make any spindle you want, and once done, you can use the same set-up as I described. to copy your original, so you can make more... The Legacy's template follower can be used for many things other then just re-producing from start to finish idioms. The Legacy is NOT a copy lathe, but it can be used as one. I personalty use the template follower for detail work, like side reeding a thin spindle, where I know a side cutting bit router bearing will slip and under cut what I plan to make. (exp. the cups that I have made over the last few weekends) Legacy made a few y ears ago, a video called Profile following. in this video they used a template to make a number of different idioms by using the follower. The sky is the limit. By using some simple ideas. you can make much more then you ever dreamed of. What do you all think? any and all comments are (as always) Welcome. C.A.G. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> www.avg.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
