Re: New steady rest for the Legacy

2020-03-15 Thread Paul Richmond
I’ve often thought of making a thin stock support that attaches to the carriage as a “follower” rather than the fixed position solutions. Would be a good bit tricky but might work better for long spindles Paul On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:08 PM 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills < legacy

RE: New steady rest for the Legacy

2020-03-15 Thread bulkeley
Legacy made one in the day wouldn’t be too hard to make one Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Paul Richmond Sent: Sunday, 15 March 2020 6:49 PM To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New steady rest for the Legacy I’ve often thought o

Re: New steady rest for the Legacy

2020-03-15 Thread 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills
Hello and Good morning.  I too like the idea, but as I see it, If cutting a straight dowel this steady rest will work preface,BUT, This type of steady rest will have problems on a tapered spindles. which is mostly what I make on the legacy.  I think if you are going to make something like this,