Homemade Sphere Turning Jig. Suitable ppe (personal protection equipment) must be news. This is a step by step guide to making a jig to help drill spheres. You can turn a sphere by eyeballing;

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Manufacturing custom made woodturning tools including heavy duty clark steady rests, clark deep hollowing systems, clark sphere turning jigs, articulated holders, straight holders, curved holders, carbide cutters, high speed steel cutters and hollowing tools for woodturning lathes. I've turned many spheres and have combined two techniques to make them perfect without a jig. No problem with the adjustable quill stop.

It can create a very small diameter sphere but can also create a sphere up to 3 below the maximum swing.

I left the marks from the fly turning on the bed so if need be i could potentially shellac small items to the bed detent makers made a number of swing tool jigs out of glass hard steel to do each operation; I left the marks from the fly turning on the bed so if need be i could potentially shellac small items to the bed detent makers made a number of swing tool jigs out of glass hard steel to do each operation; The perfect sphere™ tool is a sphere and concave turning system adaptable to most lathes on the market. My first wooden spheres with my home made sphere turning jig. Carbide cutter for consistent results. Woodturning a sphere is an easy project. When i do i use the between centers method and it takes a while and they i finished the tenons off manually without the jig and that's why they are off. Easily create perfect spheres every time.