Joshua Dinerstein
02-17-2010, 12:18 AM
A first for me, believe it or not. I was trying to cut a foot for a bowl that was the perfect size so that my dovetail jaws on the chuck would hold solid but not mark it. (It never happened before because I never even got close with the Barracuda 2 chuck having serrated jaws. It always marked no matter what...)
So now I have a bowl with a great shape that I would like to keep... And it is close. So very close. It will grab the bowl but with too much pressure on the cut it will shift in the jaws. So I have to come up with something else. To hold it. The vicmarc step jaws are too large but the shark jaws would work. unfortunately I don't own anything but the stock 2" dovetail jaws for that chuck.
I also have a SuperNova2 chuck that is NIB that I have thought about using. The step jaws for it are just enough smaller that it would grab it. But buying some jaws for the turning of just 1 bowl seems a little wrong... (Even to me who will seemingly spend money on anything...)
I have watched with great interest Bob Hamiltons videos where in some of which he uses these deep wooden jaws. His comment in one of the videos was that he used his Oneway Flat Jaws to mount the wood too. I have looked those up and I can see how they would be used to good effect. However the one type of chuck it seems I don't own is a OneWay. And again buying all of that setup for just 1 bowl seems somewhat wasteful.
So I thought about doing much the same thing with my PSI Cole Jaws. Just mount wooden jaws with the screws from the back. It would probably work but that chuck wobbles on my 3520b with the adapter. So I would rather not do that.
So the real questions...
1- Any ideas?!!? :)
2- Can cole jaws be used in the way I described? I don't want to mess up the threads in them but it seems like it should work.
3- Can wood be mounted right to the "slides" underneath the normal jaws? It would seem like with proper screws you could drill and then mount the wood using the machine screws right to the jaw slides. Would be nice way to get some great flexibility out of a chuck. You could cut them to whatever size you needed.
(NOTE: You know in thinking about it if I get the right screws for my cole jaws I could go in from the front and screw something thin like 1/2" or 3/4" MDF right to the front of the cole jaws in the same way as the little nubs are mounted. That could be interesting...)
4- So what have you guys and gals done when you have made my mistake?
Thanks again for all the help to this and every other question!
Joshua
So now I have a bowl with a great shape that I would like to keep... And it is close. So very close. It will grab the bowl but with too much pressure on the cut it will shift in the jaws. So I have to come up with something else. To hold it. The vicmarc step jaws are too large but the shark jaws would work. unfortunately I don't own anything but the stock 2" dovetail jaws for that chuck.
I also have a SuperNova2 chuck that is NIB that I have thought about using. The step jaws for it are just enough smaller that it would grab it. But buying some jaws for the turning of just 1 bowl seems a little wrong... (Even to me who will seemingly spend money on anything...)
I have watched with great interest Bob Hamiltons videos where in some of which he uses these deep wooden jaws. His comment in one of the videos was that he used his Oneway Flat Jaws to mount the wood too. I have looked those up and I can see how they would be used to good effect. However the one type of chuck it seems I don't own is a OneWay. And again buying all of that setup for just 1 bowl seems somewhat wasteful.
So I thought about doing much the same thing with my PSI Cole Jaws. Just mount wooden jaws with the screws from the back. It would probably work but that chuck wobbles on my 3520b with the adapter. So I would rather not do that.
So the real questions...
1- Any ideas?!!? :)
2- Can cole jaws be used in the way I described? I don't want to mess up the threads in them but it seems like it should work.
3- Can wood be mounted right to the "slides" underneath the normal jaws? It would seem like with proper screws you could drill and then mount the wood using the machine screws right to the jaw slides. Would be nice way to get some great flexibility out of a chuck. You could cut them to whatever size you needed.
(NOTE: You know in thinking about it if I get the right screws for my cole jaws I could go in from the front and screw something thin like 1/2" or 3/4" MDF right to the front of the cole jaws in the same way as the little nubs are mounted. That could be interesting...)
4- So what have you guys and gals done when you have made my mistake?
Thanks again for all the help to this and every other question!
Joshua