Fixings and blank size

STOP, get a coring system first.

Leo Van Der Loo

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I agree with Leo!

George Van in WI

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Ron in Drums PA

>Ditto about the corng system.

I have a roughed out blank I turned at Bill G's that is about 20". I used a chuck with a big set of jaws.

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Greg in Oshkosh

>I usually use a faceplate for the initial outside shaping. I then mount on stornghold chuck using the #3 jaws. These jaws let me use a 5.25" diameter spigot which is quite secure. One note. Do not make the spigot out of sapwood. When wet sapwood is not strong enough and will split right off the bowl. Don't ask how I know this.

I do core out larger pieces after mounting them on the chuck. I recently got 16 bowls out of four blanks from my daughters black walnut tree.

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Jimbo13

>Mike,

I used the #4 jaws of the Stronghold chuck to hollow a 23.5" red oak bowl blank. It was about 2 years ago but I believe the tenon was about 5.5". No problems but that tenon didn't look all that big on the blank.

The piece came from a tree that was a little over 4' diameter at the base. Chain sawed it to fit on the lathe an then spent a couple of hours to rough out with a garbage pail and a half of chips. Felt like I went a couple of rounds with pro fighter. Roughed it down to about 1.5" thickness. Coated the end grain with end grain sealer and wrapped it up in a few paper bags. Checked it a week later to find a big split running from the edge to the center - that hurt!

A lot of time - I now use the Kelton coring tools. Minutes to core out a bowl. Definitely the way to go.

Gidday,

Jim

Thanks all..Regarding coring

MikeinCapeMay

>I have the Kelton two piece handle so "all" I'd need are the blades. I also have a Kelton hollowing gate, I don't imagine I could you use that in place of the tool assembly that's manufactured specifically for the coring system. In the catalog I See what appears to be a horizontal bar on there, which is not on the hollowing gate.

As for using the chuck, my Axminster capacity is 3" and that concerns me. They do manufacture a Gripper jaw that compresses up to 4 3/16". The little voice in my head that says "If it don't look/feel right, it isn't", keeps sounding.

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Leo Van Der Loo

>Hi Mike

Mike If you have a 24" capable lathe you need more chuck than what you have now, get something like a Oneway stronghold chuck with the big jaws, and even then you will have to use common sense, if you get to the max of your machine you have a lot of leverage on the outside edge, and it is easy to get a dismount, I tend to use a face plate when I get big, and especially deep, and just use some of the bowl blank's depth for mounting the faceplate and take off that wood afterward by reverse chucking.

Have fun and take care

Leo Van Der Loo

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MikeinCapeMay

>Thanks Leo!