Can you believe it, Christmas is only a week away! Guess I'd better get started on my shopping pretty soon.

 

A fledgling turner friend asked about making a steady rest. I know we had discussed this topic in a previous "Wednesday's" post but it got me to thinking about a video, I watched sometime back, of a Trembleur Contest. The contestants used quite an variety of steady rest constructions. So, for your enjoyment and amazement-

 

 

 

Another blast from the past is an article I found about making turning tools and jigs. I have attached the PDF file. My apologies to the original author, I didn't save the link to the information.

 

 

And a couple of links for more tool/jigs for the lathe. Some of the content we have seen before-

 

 

http://breezyhillturning.com/styled-3/Tools_Jigs/wood-turning-tools-jigs.html

 

 

http://www.fundamentalsofwoodworking.com/woodturning-wood-carving-marquetry-intarsia/woodturning-jigs-and-wood-finishing

 

Safe Turning!

tools_jigs_turn.pdf

Sorry I missed this one Lew, great topic and thanks for always being so reliable with the Wed topics! We greatly appreciate it.

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That is pretty awesome Lew. I love the articles!