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What Do I Do Now?

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What Do I Do Now?

George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA

>Good Afgternoon Friends,

While taking a rare break from flat work I decided to rough out a green cherry bowl blank 9" diameter and 3 1/2" thick. The blank came from a branch from #2 daughter's downed cherry tree. I drilled out the center of the blank to accept the threaded screw of my Talon chuck, spun on the blank and began. Evidentally I did not have the screw well secured in the chuck and the blank wobbled out--most angrily. I shut the thing down pretty quick/and no damage. The trouble is the hole is augured too large now for the screw. First thought is to plug with a hardwood dowel and redrill. But I thought I'd ask the experts before I "screwed" it up worse.

George

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John Trant (aka Boxes-n-Bowls)

>Turn it between centers, turn a tennon on the bottom to fit your chuck jaws, turn the outside to shape, screw on the chuck and mount the bowl so that you can remove the inside. Even with the blank held by the chuck, you want to use the tailstock for as long as you can, particularly when you are working near the rim.

Next time, make sure you use the tailstock to hold the blank when you are mounting it on a screw chuck.

John

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Wally Dickerman at Green Valley, Az.

>Another alternative is to mount the blank on a faceplate instead of the screw chuck, and do what you started out to do. Unless I'm rough turning a deep hollowform I almost never use the tailstock. Just a matter of choice.

Wally

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BubbaBob

>Face plate.

BubbaBob

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Thanks Guys

George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA

>I appreciate the alternatives. While you responded, I started a second bowl and blew out the blank! O for 2. That kind of an afternoon.

George

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Bill Hale / The Wood Spinner

>Sounds like beer 30 to me.

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