Woodturning Trembling Trembleur

I saw a couple of trembleurs in the instant gallery at the AAW symposium in Portland, Oregon. And, then, Eli Avisera did a demonstration that was very informative. The only significant difference between Eli's process and mine is that I cheated and turned the trembleur from a round dowel instead of square stock. In my experience dowels have fairly straight grain which is perfect for a trembleur.

Size: about 12 inches long. Main shaft is about 1/8 inch. Started with 1/2 inch dowel.

My disk is mounted to an arbor from Little Machine Shop that I have had for some time.
There are several MT2 arbors to choose from. If I were starting over, I'd look first at the first one on this list.
Arbor, Drill Chuck 2MT Tang to 3/8"-24 Thread
Arbor, Drill Chuck 2MT Short to 33JT
Arbor, Drill Chuck 2MT Short to 2JT
Arbor, Drill Chuck 2MT Standard to 33JT

Enjoy.

p.s. If you would like a more in depth demonstration than my weekly videos, please contact me for an IRD (Zoom Demo) on this or other topics.

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[DougMilleratWoodSpunRound]

Great job. I like this string steady much better than most of them that I’ve seen. I can’t turn one very long because of the short length of my lathe, but what you’ve shown is fully doable. Thanks for sharing.

[charlesreicks]

Wow what a amazing Idea and peace of work. You have such a gentle touch. Thanks Tim

[glencrandall]

Alan, this is an outstanding piece of work. I love the steady rest. Quite innovative. The results are beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and continue to stay safe. Thanks to your reminders I know I will.🙂🙂 Looking forward to meeting you at SWAT.

[LewisKauffman]

Thanks, Alan! As always, your imaginative solutions are a joy to watch.

[ThePapa]

Pretty cool method Alan. I was at the AAW as well but missed this demo.
Gary

[alanmullock]

Thank you for sharing Alan👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎

[cooperken]

My friend Jan Pennel turned one 2.4m or 8ft long. She was an amazing woman. ❤

[williamellis]

Nice, Alan. That string steady was a great idea. I don't think starting with a dowel is cheating. I'm pretty sure you know how to turn a square piece round when you need to lol.
Bill

[danceswithaardvarks]

Enjoyed that thanks. I was expecting the off centre scoop that I saw on Instagram yesterday, but see that I missed that a few days ago. That's next on my viewing list.
I noticed that you were using the skew ""toe down", which is something I still have to learn. All of the teaching videos (that I have found at least) show "toe up" turning, so what's the best way to go about learning to turn "toe down" with a skew?
A more frugal way to make the string steady is to fit it directly onto your partly extended tailstock quill. This also has the advantage of being able to pass a few inches of the spindle inside the quill and gain a few inches in maximum length.

[mikefricker]

I must just have to try this, great idea. However, would a cone live centre do the same steadying job? Keep ‘em coming! Best wishes, Mike

[dienno]

Thanks for the ideas and the inspiration Allan. Would you share the type of chuck/jaws you are using?

[walshjp]

Excellent work and Like the dowel idea. Do you have an stl file of the 3D printed string steady you can share?