PSI utility chuck

[Bob Hallowell]

I am new to turning. Been a woodworker for a while. I bought an used grizzly lathe and want to get a chuck for bowls, I have been looking around at the different chucks and all the prices. Would psi utility grip work well enough it has 4 self centering jaws and you can get all the extra's their more expensive ones have. Or am I wasting my money should I hold off for a one way.

Bob

[Bernie Weishapl]

Bob I bought the PSI chuck and am well satisfied with it. In fact I find myself reaching for it most times. The only thing that bothered me was I bought one from Grizzly and found out it was the same one for $42.50 or half the price of PSI.

[Corey Hallagan]

I have the Grizzly 42.50 one. Worked well after I figured out how to do a proper tennon!

corey

[Don Baer]

I have the Oneway and love it. IT does cost a lot more then the Grizzely but I don't buy mail order. So I guess I end up paying a premium.

[Corey Hallagan]

I also bought the Nova Midi chuck and it works great as well. Nice to have a couple chucks.

corey

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

I've got the $42 Grizzly chuck, and it works fine, but I also have the Nova G3 chuck, and it is so much better than the $42 chuck.

If money is tight, you will get a lot of use out of the $42 Grizzly chuck for sure.

Cheers!

[Bob Hallowell]

looks like a grizzly might be on the way. Please excuse me I don't know much about my lathe, I turned some chisel handels and carvers mallet. The LOML wants to learn to turn bowls and we are thinking on driving 2 hours to pittsburg to the woodcraft on the 27th cause they are giving free greenwood bowl lessons.

If I buy the grizzly can I still buy the flat jaws from psi to hold the outside of the bowl?

Bob

[Stephen Hibbs]

Well, if the claim that the girzzly and the psi chuck are the same is true, then yes, the jaws should fit it. I have a grizzly and quite like it. Far faster and less wasteful than faceplates, and just as safe with harder woods. You could also do what I did, and instead of buying flat jaws, make a donut chuck. A quick search should find a couple of examples on the forum, and there's a good how-to online that I used.

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

Yeah, donut chucks are easy to make and they can hold a lot of different bowls, I used one this morning to finish off that "Thicker" (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=40937) bowl for my wife's B-day tomorrow....

Cheers!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Bob just buy a extra faceplate and make some donut chucks. I made mine and made several different size donuts. I have them that will hold bowls from 4" to 13" bowls. I think minus the faceplate I have about $7 in them. Made them out of 1/2" MDF.