This is a sturdy Jamieson-style hollowing system I fabricated in 1996 or thereabouts. The handle is formed from 3/4" cold-rolled steel shaft. My intention was to have it welded but I got as far as bolting the two L-shaped bars together and it seemed more than strong enough so I left it at that. Two 3/8 x 16 x 1 1/2" long industrial-grade allen screws hold the bars together securely. Please click on the small images to get the full-size ones.

The bar has a double-setscrew socket for interchangable tool shafts, the one included with the handle is 12" long. That has a 3/16" slot milled in the end, with a setscrew. A cutter bit from a HSS planer blade comes with the tool.

I installed a flare fitting on the socket, and had an L-shaped piece of aluminum tubing on that for holding an overhead laser pen. It worked out quite well, the tubing was very light and didn't bounce around hardly at all when the tool was cutting. I am still looking for that piece of tubing, and the laser is long gone but you can use copper tubing. The 1/2" aluminum tubing was pulled from some kind of refrigeration system, what, I have long forgotten.

The capture rest rails are fabricated from solid maple and oak lumber, with a 20" slot opening for the tool handle. It has a 1" steel toolpost.

The capture rest base (banjo) was designed for a short-bed lathe with the bed mounting bolt at one end and the capture rest at the other. It's made of two thicknesses of 3/4" kiln-dried maple lumber, 21" long x 5" wide and has a 1/2" bolt for the bed clamp, going into a 1/4" thick x 1" wide x 2" long tapped plate under the bedrails. You may want to make your own clamp plate to fit your lathe.

Yup, the toolpost clamp is a bicycle front wheel axle :)

I'm asking $90 for the package plus shipping, or make an offer.

Ken Grunke
(608) 625-2412
kengrunke at gmail dot com
Thanks for looking!