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Recently I came across a commercial steady-rest in a triangular shape instead the often-seen round ones. Since I have been wanting to equip my shop with a steady-rest for quite a while I decided to build two similar ones. The round steady-rests require rather large amounts of plywood whereas with the triangular shape I could use off-cuts.

Instead of the two wing nuts in each corner I made a sliding mechanism with a single knob. And I designed knobs you can handle from the top of the machine to fasten the steady-rest to the lathe bed.

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Clever. I may have to give this a try. There is occasion when I could use one.
 

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thats a different idea, saving cost of plywood is a good idea.
 

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Cleaver and more easy to build.
Really fine.
Best thoughts,
Mads
 

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Nice design - mission accomplished - it's also functional.
 
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