benja
13th August 2008, 08:21 PM
Decided to get my lathing area set up today, and clean up the secondhand lathe i purchased a while ago. Took some time just to clean up all the slides, bearings and threads, then i decided to smooth out the tool rest.
It still had the original paint on it in parts, so took it back to bare metal, then kept going to remove the dings (still 2 left, but getting there)
My question is, what angles should the tool rest have? It seems like about 45 and 30 degrees at the moment, and since cleaning it up the definition between angles isnt razor sharp (it wasnt before either). Is this definition essential, or is a slight blending or rounding between the 2 angles better?
Cant wait to load in some lumber and give it a spin:U.
It still had the original paint on it in parts, so took it back to bare metal, then kept going to remove the dings (still 2 left, but getting there)
My question is, what angles should the tool rest have? It seems like about 45 and 30 degrees at the moment, and since cleaning it up the definition between angles isnt razor sharp (it wasnt before either). Is this definition essential, or is a slight blending or rounding between the 2 angles better?
Cant wait to load in some lumber and give it a spin:U.