Yes, Curt. Excellent work ! And Yes. I would.like to see pictures of your follower. I am Very new to this tool. Ed Trevillian
On Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 8:08 PM 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills < legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > > > I am in the process of making a new template follower for my 1000ex. > > Over the years I've modified my template follower a number of time. Each > time > learning and improving the original design. I state this to the fact that > many in the > group are new, and have not see the modifications that have been done. > > (If anyone would like I can post some old photos of these mod.?) > > But at this time, I will just go over the goals of this new MOD. > To start off , my legacy was modified to work on linear rail back in 2020. > And my Carriage was also > modified to give me a longer depth of cut, over the original Legacy > design. Having said this > My Legacy no longer looks like what most of you all own. Because/due to > this MOD, I can no longer > use the template follower in the same way as I used to do. > My plan it to make the follower work form a table that is in the front of > the Legacy (working side, not the back side as originally made.) I find > working form the front makes everything more user friendly. > > Now WHY go through all the troubles in Modifying the template follower for > the Legacy, When it is the least used tool on the Legacy? > I find that using the template follower gives the Legacy an ability that > most people would only dream of. > Giving the Legacy the ability to follow a profile/shape, as well as other > design elements that can not be easily > done on other machines. (It dose not make the Legacy into a copy lathe, > meaning it dose NOT make exact copies of an object, but it dose add a lot > of similar possibility's to the Legacy, that you can not get else-ware.) > > I will stop here and show some old works that I done using the follower on > my Legacy. Perhaps Latter we can > then talk about more possibility's that the Legacy can do, and perhaps, > explore some new ideas? > > talk to you all more latter. > Have a good night. > > C.A.G. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/527848055.4098774.1694390918918%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/527848055.4098774.1694390918918%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/CAL8Pmr2UuMuikNDPkmA5QrtdgDOvAtOXgU%3D7493q3MYFO9xYbg%40mail.gmail.com.
