Thread: roller guides?

What roller guides are you talking about? I have never heard of

"ROLLER GUIDES"

on the lathe

are you talkin about the thing you attach to your lathe with like 4 skateboard looking wheels on it and you can adjust them to fit around the timber? If it is then yeah it should work, i used to use one when turning vernadah posts and it worked pretty good to stop vibration its just a bit of a pain cause you cant turn were the wheels are until later when u move it. I more commonly just used my hand to stop it vibrating and turn with one hand sort of.

Originally Posted by Mr Unknown

are you talkin about the thing you attach to your lathe with like 4 skateboard looking wheels on it and you can adjust them to fit around the timber? If it is then yeah it should work, i used to use one when turning vernadah posts and it worked pretty good to stop vibration its just a bit of a pain cause you cant turn were the wheels are until later when u move it. I more commonly just used my hand to stop it vibrating and turn with one hand sort of.

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Originally Posted by PHD1

i was wondering how roller guide work on tall vessels (say 15" or over). Does it help in stopping chatter when the vessels getts thin?
Happy turning

Check out this link PHD - right in your backyard (so to speak). I started out with a home-made lathe with a flimsy 1/2" shaft so any sort of vessel at all would chatter if I didn't use a steady. Beats the hell out of wearing your fingerprints off trying to hold it!!!

What you are after is a "center steady"
Have a look at this thread -
Anyone bought or made a "center steady for a lathe????

Or I do have an article on making a steady, PM your email address and I'll get it out to you!

Originally Posted by Auzzie turner

What roller guides are you talking about? I have never heard of

"ROLLER GUIDES"

on the lathe

Hey Joash, This is what i was asking about. Here is a link from some1 else. http://homepage.mac.com/mfoydel/PhotoAlbum4.html He is calling it a center steady rest.

There is also a device called a bowl steady - one or two wheels that steady the outside of a bowl opposite the point you're cutting at.

Oneway have a schmick version but the design is easy to knock off. I built a single wheel version for $12. Worked until/unless your bowl goes out of round which is why the Oneway spring loading makes sense.

a lathe steddy mmmm