Alex Beloborodov is a Tbilisi-based custom furniture marker. Despite his experience with woodworking tools, he’s new to turning; and faced with a project that required him to make hundreds of the same leg on a lathe, he came up with a clever jig that provides real-time visual feedback on which parts of the blank need to be removed.
As he sneaks up on the profile, the relevant pieces of the jig fall away, signaling completion of that particular contour:
I imagine it was painstaking to set up, but super satisfying to use.