How to build a Folding Lathe Tool Rest
I have made hundreds of light pulls in my time. They only take a about 5 minutes each to make; but soon after I began making them in quantities I found that taking the tool rest out to sand and polish one, then putting the rest back to make the next, took a significant amount of time. It occurred to me that it might be possible to use a folding rest. So (around 1984) I knocked one up in a hurry and I have been using it ever since. It
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