Wood Turning Accessories

Perfect Hollower™ System

The Perfect Hollower™ is the latest addition to the Carter lathe products line and is an articulated arm hollowing system that allows you to hollow with a completely captured bar tool for safely turning hollow forms and bowls. The Perfect Hollower allows the operator to focus on the work and art of the vessel being turned instead of on the complexity of the hollowing system. It incorporates smooth rotating captured bearings that eliminate drag in rotation, thus enabling a smoother flowing motion to all tool movements. By doing this, it gives the operator more control and feel while turning the work piece.The system is ideal for projects up to 8" deep.

The Benefits of the Perfect Hollower:

• Safer than traditional hollowing systems
• Ability to hollow and sphere with the addition of the Perfect Sphere Head (sold separately)
• Easy set-up on most lathes and is adjustable without the need for additional studs
• Quickly and easily removed and re-installed
• Heavy duty
• Perfect for beginner or experienced turners

Perfect Hollower™ Laser Guide

The Carter Perfect Hollower™ Laser Guide provides a visible wall thickness and depth indicator that allows the user to see when the wall thickness is at the desired measurement or the cutter head is at the desired depth. This thickness is set by the turner prior to inserting the cutting tool into the piece. The system comes with the easy to mount and adjust laser assembly that attaches directly to the Perfect Hollower bar assembly. Laser assembly and all necessary hardware to set up and use the laser is included. Operates on 2 AAA (included).

The Benefits of the Perfect Hollower™ Laser Guide:

• Easily attached, adjusted and quickly removable
• Clean and safe internal wiring with quick on off switch located in top tube
• Operates on 2 readily available AAA batteries which are housed internally in the tube

Note: Only compatible with Carter's Perfect Hollower™ System (Item# 4423)

Hollow Roller

The patent pending made in the USA Hollow Roller™ system is a captive bar tool for safely turning hollow forms and bowls. The bar is completely captive, which allows the operator to focus on the work and art of the vessel being turned instead of on the complexity of the hollowing system. It incorporates a fully sealed bearing lubrication free roller system that eliminates drag on the bar, thus enabling a smoother flowing motion to all tool movements. By doing this, it gives the operator more control and feel while turning the work piece.

Note: To fit the Hollow Roller on your lathe, you must purchase a Hollow Roller Mounting stud to attach the Hollow Roller to your lathe banjo.

The Benefits of the Hollow Roller:

• Safer than traditional non-captive hollowing systems
• Easy set-up on most lathes (via accessory stud)
• Quickly and easily removed and re-installed
• Heavy duty, but light in overall weight
• Perfect for beginner or experienced turners
• The system is functional for all size lathes from mini's to full size, so you don't have to buy a new system just because you buy a new lathe.

Torque Arrestor Tool Rest

The Hollow Roller™ Torque Arrestor tool rest (which attaches to the lathe through the user’s existing banjo), an auxiliary height adjustable tool rest, the Carter Artisan Series 175 quick lock tool handle and the unique profile Hollow Roller™ boring bar with high speed steel scraper bit. The only other part needed is the Hollow Roller stud adaptor to fit your size lathe banjo and a desire to create unique artful vessels. A laser module and other accessories will be available for this system.

Quick Lock Tool Handle

The Carter Accuright Series 175 quick lock tool handle, which comes with the system, also has the added benefit of allowing the use of other tools like gouges and scrapers. This gives the purchaser a high quality tool handle for use outside of the Hollow Roller™ system. The Accuright 175 handle comes with a stock 5/8” collet, but can accommodate any size round bar up to 3/4” with additional collets available from Carter in the Accuright Tool handle section. Another tried and tested feature of the Accuright series handle is its large internal cavity which allows for the addition of sand, shot or any other material to add weight and increase dampening when in use.