On a recent project I required a number of evenly spaced beads. I made a
beading scraper from a broken baseball bat, an old square shank screwdriver,
and a few cutters from an old Craftsman bench saw molding cutter which
hasn't been used in 30 years. It worked very well, so I ground a few cove
cutters which are shown below with a maple sample piece. It would be easy
to make a dovetail undercut bit from one of the square cutters in the
molding set.

The old screwdriver was so hard that I had to draw temper with a propane
torch before I could cut it and drill and tap the hole for the socket head
screw. They don't make them like they used to!

http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65j/bead_scraper.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65...per_cutter.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65...per_sample.jpg

For those who may be interested, I show some other shop made lathe tools on
the lathe page on my vanity website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65j/lathes.html

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Ken Vaughn
Visit My Workshop: http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65/

a few cutters from an old Craftsman bench saw molding cutter which
hasn't been used in 30 years.

Great idea. I have one of these that also hasn't been used for years. I'll be
trying your idea soon.

Thanks

Earle Rich
Mont Vernon, NH