Steady rest for light turning

[DIYSwede]

Thank you, Philip! Nice build, and thanks for sharing.

Personally, I most often find myself choosing "eclectic or heretic" materials in my one-off builds at work (props for set and stage):
"Cheap, quick and good enuff for Government work": using junk, scraps, cutoffs from just about anything already lying around.
Mostly due to the short lead-times in my prototyping, I can't even afford a few days waiting for delivery of (also expensive) materials.
Guess I would qualify for the Dumpster Diving World Finals...

And then in dire need of the fast and easy process of forming wood (plastics, etc) relative to metal, and also the fact that
the operative prototypes usually has to do their job for only a few weeks' shows or shoots, I don't wanna over-engineer the stuff.
We never, ever get into "series production" - more than just a dozen of anything gets outsourced.
"Winging and Kludging" is quick, dirty, cheap and mostly operational enuff.

To be honest - it's only during the last two years I've been able to make "all metal", real, precision gadgets,
and then mostly for shop tools - either at work or for my "Walk-in closet workshop" at home.

ATB
Johan