Let's see how you store your tool rests.....

[Odie]

My tool rest storage is simply some 1 1/8" holes drilled into some wood blocks salvaged from some shipping pallets. Over the years, I've added holes and bought new tool rests. It became a nightmare, because all the rests didn't fit the available holes without them getting tangled. Now, I've plugged some holes, put several non-essential rests into storage, and marked each rest to mate with a specific hole. It's working better now. Still, I just may scrap this whole set-up, and start over again! 🙁

I'm interested is seeing some of your creative ideas for tool rest storage.....show us what you got.😎

ko

 

[Gary Chapman]

My tool rest storage is simply some 1 1/8" holes drilled into some wood blocks salvaged from some shipping pallets. Over the years, I've added holes and bought new tool rests. It became a nightmare, because all the rests didn't fit the available holes without them getting tangled. Now, I've plugged some holes, put several non-essential rests into storage, and marked each rest to mate with a specific hole. It's working better now. Still, I just may scrap this whole set-up, and start over again! 🙁

I'm interested is seeing some of your creative ideas for tool rest storage.....show us what you got.😎

ko

Odie,
Turning is such a cheap hobby.ha ha. What you need is another rest or should I say your're about ready for a rest home. After looking at your shop and all your tools, they look more confusing than mine. How do we get so many. I keep going back to my favorite two or three and the others are just taking up space. I see something new and I give it a try just to go back to my first reliable ones.
I need to have a yard sale.
Your work is so good though, I see you are probably using most of them.
Our club had a sanding distributor give a demo the other day and I was so tempted to buy some mandrels but i resisted and went home and made my own,so much cheaper. Gary

 

[James Seyfried]

I'd take a picture and show mine, but I don't think you're looking for bad examples. 🙂
I did come up with a idea to store them, but so far I've procrastinated.

I'm glad you started this thread, as I would like a better way to store mine too!

 

[Raul McCai]

HA~!!! Nice collection of rests~!!
Interesting use of the steel hose clamps to establish the preferred height.

 

[Odie]

Odie,
Turning is such a cheap hobby.ha ha. What you need is another rest or should I say your're about ready for a rest home. After looking at your shop and all your tools, they look more confusing than mine. How do we get so many. I keep going back to my favorite two or three and the others are just taking up space. I see something new and I give it a try just to go back to my first reliable ones.
I need to have a yard sale.
Your work is so good though, I see you are probably using most of them.
Our club had a sanding distributor give a demo the other day and I was so tempted to buy some mandrels but i resisted and went home and made my own,so much cheaper. Gary

Gary......

Heh,heh,heh......yep, it ain't cheap! With all the different products available to us, we have to take our best guess as to what might be of value to our own turning style, and try out a few of them. Even at that, maybe.....just maybe half of the gizmos we buy, turn out to be something we'll continue to use. Most of us have wasted an embarrassing amount of money trying this and that! 🙁

Of those tool rests in the photo, I use all of them some of the time, and 3-4 of them all of the time. There are two or three that I never use, and recently stuck them in a drawer, just to get them out of the way!

Good to see you've made some of your own mandrels. I really admire other people who make their own tools and jigs. It's really a big part of what leads to our "unique" selves.........! 😀

ko

 

[John Beaver]

I screw 1 1/4 pipe straps on the wall and stick the post into those. If I need extra space I put a little block between the strap and the wall.

 

[hockenbery]

I am a little more low tech. I only use 3 rests so I don't need elaborate storage. Left to right
I keep my rests on the outboard of my my lathe which I don't use often these days.
You see the ONEWAY rest, and Robust j rest.I keep one rest in the banjo it is the short comfort Robust.
Then on the right are my working tools. I just use a work mate lay out what I am using.
Behind me I have a roll around five drawer cabinet for centers, chucks, jaws, mcnaughton coring rest,calipers pencils, wrenches, etc

Al

 

[Dennis J Gooding]

I have a simple solution. I toss the ones that I am not using at the moment on the floor under the tailstock end of my Oneway. 😀

 

[Gretch Flo]

I have a simple solution. I toss the ones that I am not using at the moment on the floor under the tailstock end of my Oneway. 😀

you and me both!!!!! I only have 4, Gretch

 

[hockenbery]

I have a simple solution. I toss the ones that I am not using at the moment on the floor under the tailstock end of my Oneway. 😀

I can't put anything on the floor it would get buried in shavings.
Besides that is my permanent storage for for small screws that my big magnet can't attract. 🙂

 

[Mark Mandell]

I'm With Al

I have 3 rests; a long and a short Robust plus the goal-post that works with my KOBRA. Over the years I've found that I needed no others. Made a number of curved tool rests but found them to be not worth the space they took up for the turning I wish to do. I can make whatever curved shape I wish with a straight tool rest simply by moving it. With a curved rest, the tendency was to make the same curve over and over; fine for making salad bowl sets, I suppose, but I rarely do such things anymore.

I also bowed out of the competition to die with the most tools 😀

 

[Odie]

HA~!!! Nice collection of rests~!!
Interesting use of the steel hose clamps to establish the preferred height.

Hi Raul......

Every one of my tool rests have hose clamps that adjust without tools. This is another of the great ideas I got by participating on these AAW forums......it was someone else's idea! Since that discussion took place 4-5-6 years ago, I noticed that CSUSA started carrying them in their catalogue! (I think they have a spy hanging out on these forums..... 😀)

you and me both!!!!! I only have 4, Gretch

Well Gretch......I guess I'm a pretty rare bird, because I believe most turners are using only a few rests......but, in my case, I think all of those 16 tool rests are an absolute necessity. I've got applications specific to all of them! I guess I should mention that 95% of my turning is done on less than five tool rests, though.......😉

ko

1st photo is of the rests I'm using now, and 2nd photo is of those I was using about 15 years ago......