Hi Don

Do you mean the rest to steady your tool or a rest to steady the wood
blank ??
I get the feeling that you meant a tool rest and typed steady rest, or
am I wrong ??
If you meant tool rest I have a couple of pictures of a home made tool
rest on one of my photo albums, and you can have a look, they are very
easy to make, and the Pict's are self explanatory IMO

http://homepage.mac.com/l.vanderloo/PhotoAlbum25.html

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Don wrote:
I should of added that these rolling pins are 18-21 inches long on
my extended jet midi lathe
and the org rest is about 5 inches long lots of movement needed to go
back and forth on lathe
one 18" long much easier to tunr them ..