Dan Forman
11-17-2011, 5:23 PM
Seeing Prashun's new thread about his home made bowl rest, I have the following question for those of you who have used both. Does a three or four wheel steady rest give additional, well, steadiness, over and above a two wheeled rest which is focused only on the are directly supporting the gouge? I currently have a OneWay two wheel bowl rest, but am planning to do a vase which will be about 12 or 13" deep and up to 7 or 8" wide, proportions not really worked out yet.
I made a rest similar to Prashun's a while back, though mine mounted to the ways, not a table. I found that it had a fair amount of vibration, but that could have been because mounting to the ways is not as well supported as his solution. I then got the OneWay bowl rest, and used that to do a smallish 6" deep hollow form, but got a fair amount of chatter from the Monster system, so couldn't really tell if the rest was doing it's job.
The piece of walnut I have for the proposed vase has some very interesting figure, so I don't want to take a big chance on something bad happening to it, over and above "operator error" :) So what I'm wondering...should the bowl steady do the job, or will I need the full steady rest for a piece of this size? Thanks for your input.
Dan
I made a rest similar to Prashun's a while back, though mine mounted to the ways, not a table. I found that it had a fair amount of vibration, but that could have been because mounting to the ways is not as well supported as his solution. I then got the OneWay bowl rest, and used that to do a smallish 6" deep hollow form, but got a fair amount of chatter from the Monster system, so couldn't really tell if the rest was doing it's job.
The piece of walnut I have for the proposed vase has some very interesting figure, so I don't want to take a big chance on something bad happening to it, over and above "operator error" :) So what I'm wondering...should the bowl steady do the job, or will I need the full steady rest for a piece of this size? Thanks for your input.
Dan