you Oh again and welcome I'm a happy New Year to you all I hope you have a really good festive season and I'm not too drunk and hungover New Year's Eve and New Year's Day today's project is a bit song on the fly I have a few days off up with a new year and today's the last day and I decided to finally make a steady rest for the ladies because I got some wood that's going to be needing some support because it's four years and I still haven't made this steady rest that I was going to make all along two years ago I made a few parts but I decided to carry on so I was inspired by a very detailed an in-depth video by Steven ogle and I'll put a link down below the Steven audibles channel and the actual video which explains in detail his method I've loosely copied his method this is going to be one of my famous prototypes that if it worked on was probably not build another one I've learned a few things on the way so what I'm going to do I didn't film it up to the stage I'm at with it now but I'll do a retro or kept all the bits funny enough that I've cut out and everything else or do a backward description of what I've done and obviously then you can adapt it to what you think will be better so we'll go over to the to the workbench as such and I'll go through my method of making a steady rest for the lathe and I will say once again Thank You Steven for the original inspiration from the video unity so the swing on my bed and yours will be different is eight inches so I can do a bowl at the 16 inch diameter over the bed ways so I when I cut to 3/4 inch squares of plywood to 16 inch square I then screwed them together forget the other screws and everything else at the moment I screwed them together so I had a a one and a half inch thick piece of plywood which was 16 inch square I then went to my circle cutting jig and I cut out a circle you can see the entry there for the blade and I cut the circle 16 inches okay so we are now left with a solid circle of one and a half inches in thickness and 16 inch around the outside and as I say the only three screws we've got into the moment II here so then I marked out where I wanted my arms and I decided to go with Steve Stevens design and have two of the bottom one going up vertically so at 60 degrees so I took a retractor and marked 360 degree lines to the edge of the circle now this then gave me three quadrants split one to this line two and then the third one here I then placed two screws bearing in mind this is two solid pieces of 3/4 inch ply so I put two screws in each what would become the quadrants because these are still solid at the moment and so is this so I've done all my marking I know I know where I want my arms I decided on the width of the arm so I put a center line here as I say and I marked equidistant from either side and the on these two sections here bearing in mind this is all solid so then I had to cut decide on the the width of the ring I wanted and on this particular one the width that the ring is two inches what Stephen did at this stage was to cut the central portion out with a jigsaw I decided to be lazy and I did it on the bandsaw and you can see the entry mark there did on the circle cutting jig move the slider so that the cut would start here and give me a two inch band and then after then once that have been done I then had so I know left with this configuration uncut now this will become the reason for putting the screws in will become obvious now so I then have the location marks for the top ring and the bottom ring so then mark them a B and C and I put top and bottom here because I wanted the bottom here where the joint is so before I've done any laminating or anything I got the two rings screwed together so I've got location points for the screws to put them exactly back where they were so then I unscrewed the two rings and before I did that I marked on the side the corresponding segments one two and three so when I put them back together I knew which segment went where so I've now got one single three-quarter inch ring I took back to the bandsaw and cut out like so so these are these sections are separate I then relocated them in the positions that I marked and did a dry fit which might not have been necessary but I did then I glued them together and glued them together and here you can see that I the the cut mark the start mark of the bandsaw I've also glued together too so it's all laminated together and I've kept the screws in but basically because like all the holes there I mean they're not doing anything now because the two pieces are laminated together so I know left with a ring like so and the cutouts for the arms I then made three arms like so and what I've done here is inserted m6 threaded inserts into the holes at the center and that will then carry the bolt that these will slide along okay the slot I did with the router with multiple passes I haven't got a router table I use the plunge router again you could use a jigsaw it's only to give a channel for the legs to move up and down so that you can locate them onto your piece the wheels are skateboard wheels or rollerblade wheels I got these about three years ago what you think I bought a pair of second-hand rollerblades for I think of as six pounds on on eBay and I just took all the wheels off they come with all the bearings and everything else and I just used em six threaded bolt and cut it off to the right so now sorry I have the threaded inserts placed screwed in to the recesses and I've got the bolts coming through so then I put those together and I mark them as I say where they go so they slot over the the bolts and then merely a case of a washer on each one and at this stage on dress using wing nuts and that's that's really these three-quarter inch ply glue up I've got I've cut two strips both of one-and-a-half inches wide and with a bit of fiddling about I've got it laying nice and flat on the bed ways I've clamped it with one single clamp making sure that it hasn't lifted or altered it and what I'm going to do I'm not going to glue this I'm going to screw reason being is I'll not want to change the method that I use to clamp it down at a later date so at this stage because I'm going into the side of the laminate I've drilled a hole through to about here and then the screws will go in there and I'm going to put one here one here and the same on the other side obviously making sure that they don't file each other when they go through and this way then it means that if I want to make any alterations I can and the good thing about that is that if I want to keep it permanently I'll just unscrew it and blew it so it's fine and another two screws on the other side and then this part can be finished now I've cut a piece of strip here which fits between the bed ways which will act as a location for this I've drilled two small pilot holes in there and some inch screws just to feed that underneath and attack it so that when I blew it it will be in the right position no so that no will locate in there and it is perfectly square to the headstock so all I've done is put a couple of screws in there while I was actually lining it all up and now I'll take it away and glue it up and put some screws in again just just to hold it while the glue sets okay now for fixing it underneath the bed when I started this about three years ago I made these to go along the bed way because where the sub the strengthening bars are along the bed way here and obviously there's more room here but not there so with all right okay which is a similar idea to the cam locks that we've got and I've one this side coming up through the middle and one through that side and then I'll have a lever on the top too luckily they're long enough to go through this configuration so what I'm going to do is to drill a hole this side a hole that side put those up they'll be central the only downside to this is using this method is that I have to take the tailstock off and the the banjo to slide this along the bed ways but I mean it's not something I'm going to use every day so that's really not a problem but at least that way then I've got it nice and secure that's the idea anyway so when I drill the holes and I've installed these homemade cam locks if you like I'll I'll come back it's all you to do is as you can see here I've cut down both sides of those circles that were there the circular blocks to a problem getting into bed ways so a design change if you like now that fits nicely and easily when you've got them lined up in the bed ways I've got these locking levers here and then all you do is get the lock at the bottom the piece of wood at the bottom across the bed way and I can even do that where I've got the reinforcing struts so there's no problem with that and tighten and a good thing with these things is that they do enable you to exert a lot of pressure and that is not going anyway okay in all the remains to do now is to put the legs or the arms back on again put them in the same in the right orientation slop them all there and tighten them up and I haven't got any projects at the moment that I can stick in there to try out but theoretically there should be no problem and hopefully they won't be so there's the steady rest I hope we have some use to you and as I say don't forget to go to Steve and Ogle's channel I'll put links down below see the bill properly there's obviously a little bit of clearing up cleaning up to do and to make it look a bit better but knowing me I shan't bother well I hope you've enjoyed the video thank you very much for watching I hope you found it interesting as I've said I'll put a link down to Steve and Ogle's travel down below and until the next time don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you soon cheers now