Rewriting Paragraph for Adults with no Background Info

While manually duplicating spindles (a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg) on my lathe( machine for shaping wood, metal, or other material by means of a rotating drive that turns the piece being worked on against changeable cutting tools) I grew tired of constantly setting and resetting my caliper(an instrument for measuring external or internal dimensions, having two hinged legs resembling a pair of compasses and in-turned or out-turned points) to check various diameters along the workpiece. So I made this simple wood story board to speed up the proses.

Rewriting Paragraph for 4th Graders

While copying by hand some spindles, (a piece of wood that turns on a machine that you shape), on my lathe,(a machine that turns the spindle0, I got tired of having to always set and reset my caliper, (a measuring tool for round things), to check the thickness of different parts of the wood. So I made this simple wood board that measures it faster.