Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
These tools were made out of necessity. I forgot my collets for the lathe so I needed to mount my buffing wheels away from the chuck or the head stock so I made this mesquite mandrel to mount the wheels in. I first turned the #2 Morse taper and did the fitting in the tail stock. Then I mounted it in the spindle and bored the 1/4” hole and tapped a hole for a set screw. It works just great .The second tool is a wooden sanding ball where I put a piece of sandpaper over the end and hold it on with a rubber O-ring. I needed this for some spoons I'm making. I have to make some more of them with a 1/8” arbor for a Dremel. but I may need the metal lathe for that. This was also made from Mesquite.Cheers, Jim