After numerous glue blocks on a face plate, I got a machinist 3 jaw chuck. Wasn't hard to launch a bowl from one of those.
Member Illiana Woodturners
My first woodturning experience was in 1963 in 8th grade wood shop on a Powermatic 90. My first project was a file handle followed by a walnut lamp and a cherry bowl. My mother still uses the lamp. Ten years ago I saw a Powermatic 90 on Ebay and bought it on whim. I restored that one and three more and still use a 1981 Powermatic 90 that I modified with 3" riser blocks and a VFD.
A huge number of people would be interested in reading that! And think of all the fun you could have researching, calling up the people who made the history, fact checking, hearing their stories! I'll bet people would send you some great pictures too.a mag article might be a fun thing to do.
JKJ
I bought this chuck from Woodcraft in 1979: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...huck-from-1979
TB
My first was a Craftsman-style tube lathe in 1984, although not the Craftsman brand. Mostly spindles and messing around, but I did turn a black walnut tulip style goblet. I never hollowed it, but I bored in a shallow recess at the top. I just saw it the other day - my wife put a tea light in the top and was using it as a candle stick. There is enough meat on the bottom to put it in a chuck and hollow it out after all these years.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." Robert Heinlein
"[H]e had at home a lathe, and amused himself by turning napkin rings, with which he filled up his house, with the jealousy of an artist and the egotism of a bourgeois." Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary