Hi Ken

You certainly did a nice job on that mini.
And I know what you are talking about, it sure is handy if you want to
make straight walled and flat bottomed boxes, not just the outside.
I have experimented with some different shape cutting tools, trying to
get good smooth cutting tools, for hogging I used a tool bid with a
groove ground in the bid so it looks a bit like a bowl gouge on one
side, but I use my normal wood turning tools for 99and1/2% of the time,
with a normal wood turning tool rest.
I like turning wood better than metal turning, but it sure is handy to
be able to build your own dohickies.

http://www.homepage.mac.com/l.vander...toAlbum18.html

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Ken Vaughn wrote:

One of the features of my Atlas metal lathe that I have come to depend on for
certain woodturning operations is the compound tool rest (cross slide) and tool
post with HSS metal lathe bits. When I picked up my Jet mini, I found that I
really missed the utility of this item. I enjoy making jigs and the more I
thought about it, the more interesting the prospect of making one became, and I
decided I had to see if I could do it.
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http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65/otherlathes.html