The NWG has a full sized tool arm bracket on the bottom for a tool rest. I never set mine up that way, as I've never ground using a tool rest. Finally as I'm doing a few larger blades, I decided some sort of tool rest would be helpful. Here's what I came up with. I used some 3/4" square tubing and 1/2" key stock. I threaded in a couple of 6/32 screws to keep it in the arm tight, and I used some of the same screws, countersunk, to attach some 3/16 plate to the key stock. The result is a tool rest setup that I can build multiple rests for and interchange like tool arms. Never seen one on the 'net, so I thought I'd tell you folks about it.
Here it is in video, because all that text doesn't make much sense without a picture.
[video=youtube_share;y8_pa9NCAKM]http://youtu.be/y8_pa9NCAKM[/video]
Here it is in video, because all that text doesn't make much sense without a picture.
[video=youtube_share;y8_pa9NCAKM]http://youtu.be/y8_pa9NCAKM[/video]