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[Glenn Lefley]

last one I need help on. This also came with my wife’s lathe. Her lathe came with two complete tool rests on her used Oneway 1236. This hollowing tool, is it a homemade rig or part of a system with missing pieces do you think?

 

[Fadi Zeidan]

Looks like lyle’s or a home made version of it. You could probably get lyle’s backrest to make it complete.

https://lylejamieson.com/product/back-rest-system/

 

[Bill Boehme]

Also need the attachment that holds the laser. Here is what the whole thing looks like:

You can talk to Lyle to find out what you need (or don't need) and what you can make yourself.

 

[Michael Nathal]

The teardrop cutter and the lamp socket are characteristic of the Frank Sudol/Brian McEvoy hollowing rig. You do not use a laser, instead you use the lamp and gage thickness by how much light shines through the wall. The pointy end of the teardrop is for most of the wood removal, then you rotate the cutter for final smoothing

 

[hockenbery]

It is either a Jamison hollowing rig or a copy. You will need a back rest like bill showed.
These are easy to make from wood or metal. A strip of nylon eliminate almost all the friction.

The light is as Michael described. It will only work for light color wet wood which passes light.
A consistent bright yellow is a even wall. White is through the wall.
Using light to gauge thickness requires translucency of the wood. Wet wood has some fiber optic transmission of the light which makes it work.

I would not use the internal light. I like Video - Bosch Visualizer for measuring thickness.
laser is a distant 2nd

 

[john lucas]

Al pretty much nailed it. It looks to be a homemade captured bar system. Pretty much exactly like my original one with the light and all. I made mine much narrower because I realized that when you have the bar centered there is almost no twisting torque so the distance between the outrigger doesn't need to be that much. On Steve Sinner's version he just welded the 2 bars together.

 

[Dennis Weiner]

View attachment 26511 last one I need help on. This also came with my wife’s lathe. Her lathe came with two complete tool rests on her used Oneway 1236. This hollowing tool, is it a homemade rig or part of a system with missing pieces do you think?

If your wife’s lathe came with two tool rests, then one may Have been purposed for the retaining bar which may or may not be missing. It is possible that the prior owner may have gotten by with two 1way 14 inch rests. I bought my 2436 with 2 Banjos and use them both when I use my captured hollowing system. (The bango swing on the Oneway extends the range of the capture bar allowing me to hollow very flat donut style pieces. )

My d handle looks almost identical to your photo. Mine is no longer available which was manufactured by infinity systems. Because the boring bar and d handle were 3/4 they were compatible with many other systems including Lyle Jamison’s. This enabled me to mix and match with Lyles components. Lyle has been a great source of support over the years.

Before you invest further, you may wish to determine the size and kind of hollowing you wish to do. A purchase of Lyles video and Brian Mcvoys deep hollowing video(woodturning tool store) will help educate you on what you have and may wish to build on. There are many other great sources as previously mentioned by the other turners such as Trent Bosch that can demonstrate the newest trends such as articulated and video assisted deep hollowing.