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Any of you who have been to the Bridge City Tool Works website http://www.bridgecitytools.com can appreciate the gorgeous design and execution of their woodworking tools. Many/most are CNC'ed from aluminum/brass and exotic wood. Fewer of us can afford to buy them, but they're undeniably...

Exactly. And your pictures illustrate the concept nicely :bow:

No claim to have improved the procedure. Just wondering if with only lathe & mill, one could make an acceptable (not improved) holder along the same idea of the one that requires the square hole. Point being, I suspect many machinists don't have a way to make the square hole themselves. The...

Regarding the holder shown in the pic in the reply immediately preceding this one, I gather that it offers the most rigidity/stability of the different designs discussed in this thread. Obviously it requires an EDM to make the square hole in which the HSS sits. Just wondering, on behalf of...

That's right up to your usual clever standards, Marv. That's a must-make. I see an orifice (either a through hole or maybe for a set screw?) just above the ring of 24 holes in the collet chuck. Is that used when tightening the collet i.e., is that used with the collet's keyway? or maybe it's...

Marv, I like that idea :bow: And 24 divisions gives quite the flexibility. Have you detailed the construction of this somewhere? I'd like to make one, a 5C version. I'd think that a picture or two of the parts separated would do the job. Thanks kindly.

Great project -- thank you for the details, diagrams, and pictures. Minor question: is there a typo in the sentence "I try to grind with the rotation of the lathe, but you can get away with going with the rotation"? Uh, I guess if you can get away with it either way then it doesn't matter...

:bow: Agreed. On a website as useful as yours, it would be worth checking in frequently, and one could use DownThemAll to download new (and unchanged) files. One could simply overwrite files with the same name and you'd have the latest without duplications. hmember

I'm enjoying this thread. The reference to Marv Klotz's GEAR.ZIP utility jogged my memory regarding a terrific way to download *all* of his utilities there ( http://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz/#shop ) easily in one fell swoop. There are many other applications for this, such as downloading...

First of all, if you're not using Firefox as your internet browser, consider downloading and using this free and friendly open-source program instead of some of the inferior alternatives (Internet Explorer, example). Firefox is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Secondly, once you're using...

Reminds me a bit of an item from the fertile mind of Frank Ford at his Frets site: http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/Tooling/CapScrewHolder/capscrewholder.html His is for hand-holding vs. chucking in a lathe, but they're both clever. Digressing -- I like the notion of making tools with tools...

Saw the topic heading and said to myself "If that's a post regarding a Bridgeport M head and there's nothing from my friend Mike "Holescreek", I'd better call an ambulance. And he did not disappoint. I haven't checked, but I'll bet it bears out -- whether on this forum or any other, if the...

"The unique thing about them is that they maintain contact with both sides of the follower through out their rotation." (see Oldmechthings' post above) . . . I agree -- I love weird stuff like that this. If you do also, check out this website: www.howround.com and an associated video...