Small companies often require specialized custom-made tooling to speed up production. Custom-made tooling has the advantage of perfectly adjusting to the task at hand for maximum efficiency and productivity. In this task, we were required to produced a tool called a steady rest used in lathe work for holding long parts. The challenge was to produced a tool that was able to set and align the part in the minimum amount of time possible. The final product performed excellently in achieving the alignment necessary while cutting alignment time significantly. This tool not only reduced production time significantly but also was easy enough to use that any technician could learn how to use it in a short time.