Excellent. I did the cast iron tool rests for both my 3520C and 2014 ... the JB Weld is holding up well and the top bar shows no sign of any wear.
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Tool Rest Marks?
- Thread starter Gabe Latner
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Here's my top bar from D-Way on my almost new 3520C soon after I set it up over two years ago; it looks new because it was. Using the exact instructions in the video, I went ahead and installed that D-Way top bar and the Black Hole for dust collection at the same time, and am glad I did both. As I said in a previous post, I have beat up this tool rest relentlessly with heavy, green out of round blanks for live-edge, and it has held up like new. When it gets grubby from green walnut, I either sand it with 220 or scrub it with 0000-steel wool and mineral spirits, buff in a coat of wax, and it's slicker than owl snot again!
