new tool

bscofield · Post by **bscofield** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:27 pm

I think I'll probably end up getting one these:

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5183

custom300 · Post by **custom300** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:05 am

I have one of these and it works well. If I have one complaint about it is that there is not a lot of room between buffs. You have to be careful, if you are working with on one buff that the other doesn't grab the pipe out of your hands. Other than that, its great.

BD · Post by BD » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:59 pm

I made my own with threaded rod. You can space the buffs as you desire. Then secure them with washers and nuts.

Bill

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:34 am

Excellent idea Bill. Cost a lot less than 85 bucks.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:17 am

I have one of these too. Kicks butt!

ArtGuy · Post by **ArtGuy** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:25 pm

BD wrote:I made my own with threaded rod. You can space the buffs as you desire. Then secure them with washers and nuts.

Bill

Sounds cool, How do you have the rod secured in the headstock and tailstock?

BD · Post by BD » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:30 pm

I ground the threads off one end of the threaded rod and that goes into the drill chuck in the headstock. The other end of the threaded rod was faced smooth and a small indentation was made with a drill bit. A live center is placed in the tail stock and placed into the small indentation of the rod. I have four buffs spaced out on it and it works great. I found the idea for this on the web somewhere and now I can't find the link. I'll keep looking and post it if I find it.