first i would like to thank professor m for his great idea and very informative thread on making a lathe duplicator. i took his advice and used an aluminum plate 1/2" thick as a base mounted to the ways. after some thought on producing the holder for the tool bit. came up with this idea. a friend had a router he was no longer using. took the motor out of the holder base. here are some photos. tried turning a plug, very solid and able to take a good depth of cut. i also used a tool ground to 60 degrees with side clearance and top rake as professor m suggested. ground slight nose radius too. cut great.

That Professor is a real fart smeller.

Nice knobs.:uhuh:

The set screw (stylus). Turn it around and form a radius on the end. It will make for a more precise follow.

Thats pretty cool.

thanks guys. charleston, beveled both sides of set scew and ground slight radius on nose.

Thanks but the original idea was put in my head by fishingbumwannabe and i took that and ran with it. Capesams, Steve, already tried the router set up using the router mounted to spin and do the cutting several years ago but has gone the other way with his dup using the traditional set up most of us use. Good thinking and hey what ever works, have fun.

thanks professor m