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Understood -- My work can only been as serious as I make it. 0 ticks will be the goal. And yes, on that last one I didn't use a tail stock and just pushed it forward to ensure it was in the picture. Sorry - didnt mean to try and sneak one by... You guys are great - thanks for the ideas and straight ...

Thanks for the suggestions -- all good ideas. The Follower Rest is now on order. The best part of buying a Sherline (so far) is the ease at finding/getting extra stuff. I will also try the other suggestions of slowing down and more/better centering. Not sure I am up to sharpening my tool yet but whe...

Thanks for the suggestion -- here are some pictures. I took a number of pictures of my tool. I believe it is a right handed HSS tool. A terrible question to need to as but Do I have it in sideways or upside down? Is my Steady Rest in the right spot. Sometime I put it by the tailstock and other times...

Hoping you folks can help me determine what I am likely doing wrong... More than one thing I assume. I am consistently getting bad results when reducing a single rod of steel (unknown type of steel bought at Lowes). Seems like after trying to reduce a 4 to 8 in piece of stock from .25" to .242&...

I bought two "beginner" kits from LittleMachineShop.Com (both come with materials and plans) but found that their definition of a beginner wasn't the same as mine. To them a beginner has the terminology down to a science, can readily read plans, has a existing and extensive knowledge of al...