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Your cart is empty.Compatible with 12''/ 310mm swing lathe.Lathe steady rest is great for eliminating the vibration and wobbly while turning long and slender pieces. The base of this steady rest has adjustable spacer blocks providing a secure fit on lathe beds. The non-marring wheels has a wide range to move so it can be used as a bowl rest as well as a steady rest. base to top: 400mm. Center height: 155mm
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2025-07-21 16:24:42
It works well. Keeps the turned piece in place as our lathe is not high end and we need more support than the tenon alone. It is not a super heavy duty tool and it is not huge, but it works very well for a light to medium weight tool and fits everything we need it to turn.
Milwaukie guy
2025-07-17 18:42:27
Very clever, on 3rd use 1 lock-lever interfered with my tool rest; I discovered 3 levers are held geared to bolt by a spring and Allen screw on the top. If you loosen the screw you can lift lever against its spring and rotate it then reengage gear teeth. Correction, next day I discovered you do NOT have to loosen the top screw of the lever, nor the lever itself from clamping your work... just pull outward on lever and it's free to rotate to a different geared position on its bolt. Very smart & useful. I also found I can remove the lever, bolt & all and change the approach path of its contact wheel on the project to allow my tool rest to cross through the Steady-rest axis inside the main/outer rim, securing it with only the 2nd locking bolt & knob that each wheel strut has. This thing is quite versatile. Hefty steel, six bolts all have washers to lock position better, and have lever and knob so no tools needed for ongoing adjustments during work. I was able to make a mounting yoke out of 2x4 to bolt it to Shopsmith Mark V's slide-tubes and buy one long through-bolt & wing-nut at hardware store. You can see a bit of the yoke's wood in photo around the steel tube.
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2025-07-12 17:29:06
I was looking for a cost-effective steady for my JET 1642 wood lathe. Most of them are either flimsy, expensive, or not versatile. This one seemed to have what I was looking for as being made of all steel parts except the guide wheels which are made of tough&nonmarring PU roller skate wheels. The first one I ordered came in within a couple of days and was well packed but had a problem with the frame being not at a right angle. Thanks to Amazon, they sent me a replacement with a free return. The second one was fine with all parts in good condition. It is made in China but seems well machined with all plasma cut steel and powder coated paint.One downside is it is made for a lathe with a 12inch swing which I have to adapt to my 16inch lathe. I had to make a proper raiser block along with adapting the clamping mechanism suited to my lathe bed. It took careful measurements to make all the parts fit my lathe but in the end, it is able to support any stock up to about 6-inch diameter anywhere between centers. The lockdown clamps are a bit awkward to use due to tight spacing but it is not a show stopper. I tried it on a 12"x1/2" spindle and it held it steady to shape the tip which is a good test to see how well the steady rest will hold up in real use where the stock is usually larger.Overall I am quite satisfied with the quality and functionality of this steady rest if you are able to customize the fit specific to your lathe. I am a pretty handy person and can figure things out but it would be helpful if basic instructions were included about how to clamp and support the stock specific to their accessory although there are many good videos on YouTube on this subject
Lselie Anderson
2025-07-02 20:44:43
Good quality works great
Jacob C.
2025-06-07 17:36:47
It's been working great for the last 8 vase turning I made. I think it's 100% worth the price I paid. Skate wheels are doing fine out of the box and I'm going to guess ppl don't know how to assemble things without breaking them on Amazon. I didn't use the star knobs, but instead used bolts and the lever bolts supplied, as the second fixture point to give some extra turning diameter. As this allows about an extra inch of diameter to the O.D. of the roughed out piece. This thing keeps vases/open forms from breaking loose out of the jaws while aggressive hollowing is being done.
Woody
2025-05-29 18:25:16
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Steve Harper
2025-02-15 17:23:09
As purchased, the largest bowl I could turn on my 12-inch lathe was 8.25 inches. The wheel bolts were limiting outward travel where they bump ujp against the frame. So I drilled out the frame another 1/2" at each bolt location as shown below. This allowed the bolts to travel farther and gave me 9.5 inch overall carrying diameter. This unit is sturdy enough to handle the cuts without any compromise in stability. Overall a great tool. I also thought about replacing the wheels with 45 mm diameter, and I might do that to get to 10", cost would be about $40 for new wheels.
John Whitley
2025-02-10 19:25:48
I've used this for a couple of turning projects now, a 32" broom handle and a longer (20+") tool handle. Steady rests provide additional support in the middle of longer workpieces to reduce or eliminate the inherent problems from longer material flexing during turning.Like another reviewer, I made a simple riser block (stacked & glued two pieces of 1" plywood) to adapt it to my 16" swing lathe. This also required a longer screw handle, and the Kipp M10 90mm adjustable handle (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013IYRX5E?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) has worked well for this. There's no undue flex in this steady rest, and everything about it feels well made and has worked as expected. No problems with the wheel bearings, which did include the proper spacers to prevent problems from over-tightening the axle bolts.
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