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Dec 27th, 2025 at 6:16pm
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After several futile attempts to make round thingamabobbers on palm rest wood it occured to me that I must use a form cutter.  I commenced with several futile attempts to make a proper form tool. That wore me down so decided to use my noodle to think. Think Joe think! Suddenly I remembered having small carbide reamers squirreled away somewhere. Located one and mounted it in the mill and cut a perfect round radius on the end of a 1/4 inch lathe bit. By jobe I think I may actually have it this time!
  

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Reply #1 - Dec 27th, 2025 at 6:20pm
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Looks good Wes
  

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Reply #2 - Dec 27th, 2025 at 6:24pm
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  Very nice! Are you making a pepper mill?
  

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Reply #3 - Dec 27th, 2025 at 6:27pm
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Something better than this, Jeff.
  

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Reply #4 - Dec 28th, 2025 at 11:00am
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Great looking palm rest Joe! The new cutter should last forever on wood projects!
  

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Reply #5 - Dec 28th, 2025 at 11:56am
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Thanks Vall.
The palm rest in the picture above was a half hearted attempt at making round thingamabobbers on an existing palm rest. It was one piece, smooth and stained a sickenng red orange color. Been knocking around here for fifteen years. Does match my latest Ballard aquisition pretty well. Just sorta erked me I couldn't get the thingamabobbers perfectly round. We see that style palm rest on old rifles particularly Stevens rifles. I always wanted one. To do it right thinking it has to be done from scratch rather that trying to change an existing piece. Holding it is a problem and getting it to turn true. Might make one for the Stevens 52 from the cocobolo wood like in the first picture. Will be the round pancake style with thingamabobbers on it. I don't know what they're called.  Undecided
  

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Reply #6 - Dec 28th, 2025 at 11:56am
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I thought I smelled the smoke, good work Wes.
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Reply #7 - Dec 28th, 2025 at 12:02pm
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Greg, I kept trying to grind a form cutter. Finally thought of machining one after a couple weeks. When I was thirty it would have taken me five minutes to come up with the solution.
  

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I use a Dremel tool and grind the the radius on the end. Sometimes making cutters to do a crown on a barrel. Works great.
  

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It sort of reminds me of the Winchester tuning fork palm rests the way you've turned the shape. But I like yours better without the gap in the center the Winchester palm rests have. I'm always trying to figure out where my middle finger sits on the two tuning fork palm rests I own.
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Vall, I suppose that depends on how angry you are with the target.
  
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I held a Winchester with the tuning fork palm rest. Looks neat. 

Cut some palm rest blanks today. Rosewood. Think these will look excellent with the bead thingamabobbers. Specially when the wood turns very dark.
  

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Those are nice blanks Joe!
I need to build a couple knobs myself to replace ugly newer ones on some classic single shots I own.
  

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Perty sure they'll turn nice and smooth.  Have some Mexican Bacote but not sure it wouldn't tear out. The rosewood is super heavy and tight grained.
  

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