Hello Brothers,
I don't know about you, but my habit has always been to lay all the tools that I am currently using on the bed of the lathe...
I suppose I am too lazy to bend over and put them back in the tool rack where they belong.
I am getting very clumsy of late, and have been constantly knocking the tools to the floor.
Not good when you have a concrete floor...
I grew weary of having to constantly stop to re-sharpen my destroyed edges!
So, I made a tool rack that clamps to my lathe bed.
It holds the lathe tools at 90 degrees to the bed, out of the way of where I am standing and working.
This is a ten-minute project that you can assemble from wood scraps, a carriage bolt, a few washers, and a wing nut.
I drilled 1.25 and 1.5 inch holes down the center of a board, then ripped it down the middle.
It is easy to mount and dismount, and does not take up a lot of room.
Thus far, it has saved me a lot of time sharpening dropped lathe tools...
Merry Christmas from the Colonies!
P.S. The last picture is of the first prototype, with a larger plywood bed, which was unnecessary and just caught more shavings. I am considering changing the scalloped wooden tool holders to 1.5 inch PVC cut into rings then split down the middle.
I don't know about you, but my habit has always been to lay all the tools that I am currently using on the bed of the lathe...
I suppose I am too lazy to bend over and put them back in the tool rack where they belong.
I am getting very clumsy of late, and have been constantly knocking the tools to the floor.
Not good when you have a concrete floor...
I grew weary of having to constantly stop to re-sharpen my destroyed edges!
So, I made a tool rack that clamps to my lathe bed.
It holds the lathe tools at 90 degrees to the bed, out of the way of where I am standing and working.
This is a ten-minute project that you can assemble from wood scraps, a carriage bolt, a few washers, and a wing nut.
I drilled 1.25 and 1.5 inch holes down the center of a board, then ripped it down the middle.
It is easy to mount and dismount, and does not take up a lot of room.
Thus far, it has saved me a lot of time sharpening dropped lathe tools...
Merry Christmas from the Colonies!
P.S. The last picture is of the first prototype, with a larger plywood bed, which was unnecessary and just caught more shavings. I am considering changing the scalloped wooden tool holders to 1.5 inch PVC cut into rings then split down the middle.
