tailstock

This device may be placed nearer to the end of b, since the wedge may pass through the front leg of the tailstock instead of to the right of it, as in Fig.

If the work is mounted between the centers, one method of turning a taper is to set the tailstock center out of alignment with the headstock center.

Therefore, it is not surprising to find on the later machine an outboard or “tailstock” support for the work.

But the headstock subclass is not superior necessarily to the tailstock subclass simply because the headstock is commonly more complex than the tailstock.

The tailstock is also made of two tees joined by a nipple.