Hello Owen,

Do you have Woodturner-PRO program for segmenting? If you do, design a ring with
and odd number of segments to fit your needs. Print it out and paste it to a
wooden disk. Make a saw cut at each mark seperating the segments. Make sure you
drill a hole to fit over your spindle. You can then make up a locater out of an
old saw blade to fit in the slot you cut and you have an odd number indexing
head. The disk will fit behind your chuck or faceplate. If this is not clear,
e-mail me and I'll try to make it more clear. If you don't have Woodturner PRO,
let me know and I'll make you up a drawing for you from Woodturner PRO.

Fred Holder
http://www.fholder.com

In article , Owen
Lowe says...

Hello all.

I'd like to space out 5 and 7 markings around the circumference of a
convex cone shaped turning. I have 48 and 96 position indexing on my
lathe but come up with a fractional number when dividing it out.

I tried wrapping both tape and paper around the turning, but being
convex and tapered, it just wouldn't lay flat. I tried auto striping
tape which will follow the curve but when I removed it to mark out the
segments, it had stretched into a very curved shape which was difficult
to measure with my straight rulers.

Any simple ideas to help out?



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