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I currently have to freehand my lathe tools (doable except the really small ones) and farm out sharpening my mills. Down the road, I'd like to be able to handle it all quickly in-house and add D-bits to the list but for now, I'm interested in getting at least part way into that set of capabilities with my next project... I'm about to make a much beefier table for my 8" Delta grinder... the arms coming off the wheel guards are very spindly. On that table, I'd like to have some fixturing to QUICKLY do some lathe tools and maybe some end mills sans flutes. My reading leads me to believe something like a Harold Hall or Accurate/Eccentric rig, and there are I'm sure others. Down the road into something along the lines of a Deckel knock off perhaps.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Nothings leaping out at me as a best choice. Thanks.
Actually a second one.. In Stefan G's video of his Deckel knock-off he said, I believe, that it was not rigid enough for flutes and that it ruins the end mills for plunging. Are those two things true? I would think either one of those would be a show-stopper for most.
CW
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Nothings leaping out at me as a best choice. Thanks.
Actually a second one.. In Stefan G's video of his Deckel knock-off he said, I believe, that it was not rigid enough for flutes and that it ruins the end mills for plunging. Are those two things true? I would think either one of those would be a show-stopper for most.
CW