Your decision to use brass threaded rod reminded me I have some buried in the shop someplace. Sooooo much easier and cheaper than the way I had the fingers designed in my head. Thank you very much for the idea !

I made a steady rest for my 10" Atlas lathe using the outer ring from a harmonic balancer for a Chevy 350 c.i. engine. That ring saved a lot of work and the expense of buying a piece of metal. It worked really well.

I like the idea of making it small and in pieces so it can be bolted together. On the small lathes no need for a giant diameter steady rest when the spindle bore is only 3/4" .

Always impressed by your work. I happen to be making a riser block to adapt my old 10-inch steady rest to my new 12-inch lathe, and when you mentioned you neglected to leave clearance for the spreaders on the carriage, I had to run out and make sure I had left clearance. Turns out I did, but that was just by luck. Thanks for posting! If I make a steady-rest for my six-inch lathe, I'm going to steal some design and layout ideas from you.

I ended up going with a bit of a different design than you did here in your video, however your video gave me a lot of idea's on how to make a center rest for my Atlas 618. The center rest I made has had a lot of use over the last year. The design I came up with allowed me to be able to support up to 2-7/8" which actually comes in at around a half inch more than the factory one can hold. Thanks for the video and the idea's.

Your welcome i wish some one got me interested in tool making/engineering. My farther in law was a tool maker, very skilled at his trade worked at Mitsubishi motors for many years.

Nice job on the steady rest RP, thanks for sharing the project!

Very cool build. I love making my own tools. Nice to see the mill in action.

looks pretty smart. like the ideas u have used to put it together. thanks for sharing!

the biggest I made was 26inch. I welded mine to together. good job I'm sure it works fine.

Great design! Now I know exactly how to build one for my South Bend clone.

I wonder if facing a workpiece that causes intermittent cutting such as this would benefit by facing from the center outward rather than that shown. That should minimize hammering on the cutting tool.

Thanks great to watch and your bore head was a awesome bit of kit,

Like it! Got some great ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Gave me some good ideas for making my own! Thanks!

was checking youtube for homemade steady rests to get some idea's one idea i had myself if make the whole thing up to the center hole and then set it on the lathe in such a way i can push it intoo a center drill fit in the chuck using the carriage doing it that way should give me a pretty good centered hole , not sure if the lathe will alow the steady rest to be pushed along the ways like that though

Nice job dude, looks like you will get many years of work out of it.

very nice indeed, good work. Thank you for sharing this.

What a Great job. Very Nice.

I really appreciate seeing you with average guy tools building more tools that will help you do more. Great video style too. I see it’s been a few years, how is it working? I did subscribe and I’ll be going to your channel to see what else you have to offer is home shop guys. I won’t say you are equal to Tubalcaine but dang you are really good!

The piece you are turning on the lathe is rotating, so how does that work in the steady rest you built without wheels / rollers? All the other steady rests I've seen use some type of rotating wheel where it contacts the work to allow easy rotation without marking the work. Your rest looks like it will mark and wear the work.

Great project, great design, great video! Your editing is really nice......

Great work, would have liked to see the head you were using facing the square stock.

At minute 8:38, how did you make sure that the axis of your drill was going through center? Waiting for the drill tip to touch upon the part, while moving the table? Currently brainstorming for a way to achieve good accuracy in that step. Thank you very much!

Perhaps you should consider tramming your mill before starting a proyect. As i see your milling head is tilted to the right 1-2°...

How’s it holding up ? Looks nice , fingers are long but nice job !

Awesome idea!

Awesome! this is just what I've been looking for for my 6" Craftsman Lathe!! Have you made follower rest?

i love your videos......thank you.

Nice job 👍 !

nice job on the steady rest enjoyed watching thanks. i have to make a steady as well because on my 14/40 metal lathe my steady only opends up to 2 5/8 i would like one to open to 6 1/2.

Great Job!!!! Any reason why you didn't choose to use bearings on the tightening screws.

Good ideas, thanks for sharing,

Great build, but your shop is way to clean. Good stuff!

Decent build. I like it.

Nice and simple. I like it. M

Great idea!

Watch out for those long sleeves.!!

Why use the fly cutter to cut the notches on the sides of the bottom? Wouldn't it be easy easier to use an end mill?

Really nice work

great job!!!

good job. i bet it took forever to bandsaw the cold rolled 3 inch

Great .

Nice Job done. Thanks

How its will rotate?

Nice job! RichD

Good work

Nice work :) // Sweden

what make and model of milling machine so you have??

the bore could have been opened up alot more. could still be even at this point

This has to be a First. Using a Fly cutter as a end Mill. Hehe. :)

very nice

Nice

2:20 this is the end..

You have a mill and a lathe and this is what you make?

awesome.. cheap compared to getting an original on ebay nowadays

make one in cast iron

SHOW,OK,LIKE.

Your mill needs tramming.