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That's a good looking set up. Appreciate the input from everyone!

I am trying to think about what I need and what I might want in the future. To avoid doing it twice. But again, I am new to this and truly don't know what I need to know. Just fumbling my way through it. Fake it, till you make it...

Flutes, spirals etc... I just assumed that one needed precision, in order to do indexing. Again, I am new to this and just didn't fully know/understand. So, your saying I should scale it back/down? You need to think in terms of segments(# flutes etc.) rather than degrees. From a practical standpoin...

Flutes, spirals etc... I just assumed that one needed precision, in order to do indexing. Again, I am new to this and just didn't fully know/understand. So, your saying I should scale it back/down?

Just curious, but I come up with 7 holes at 51.4°. You are saying that it's 14 holes? Maybe I don't fully understand the math. I thought I did. But you post/design looks good. So, I am assuming that you have more experience with this.

My design has 2° 3° and 5° spacing.

180 holes, 120 holes and 72 holes...

Thinking about dropping the 4° to make fabrication faster. Since it is kind of redundant with 2° already being able to be used.

I'm currently in the process of designing/creating/fabricating a indexing jig. I have it currently designed for 5°, 4°, 3°, 2°.

Still working out all the details. (New to the lathe/shopsmith world)
Any thoughts/suggestions/comments/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you! Looking "mean" wasn't my goal, but I knew that it had to hold, on anything and everything I threw at it.

I can type a lot faster than I can draw. Also, shortcut and function keys, copy/paste are your friends. But I program/cut parts daily for a living.