Musing about single chucking vs reverse chucking.

Owen, sometimes I feel like the world is passing me by. I thought I was pretty arty when I stopped plugging faceplate screw holes with match stems, but when did felt and baize bowl bottoms go out of style? :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Hi Owen

ROFL when I read your first post, thought that a nice complimentary color plug would make for a pleasing total. :->

Heck Arch could put in some more and have it look like a NIP bowl. :-)))

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

He Arch I still have a couple of those "felt over screwhole bowls", no baize on them anymore though, the glue gave out :-))

Maybe they went out of style when felt got to expensive, or maybe it didn't stick to PEG, biggest problem was maybe color coordination, that green color just didn't make the grade.

After whittling plugs from twigs and have them fall out when dried, I tried some of that rocker cover packing cork, didn't go over to well either.

So much for the good old day's

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

advance the craft.

Some rules are made to be broken, Arch... *g*

IMHO, the term "advance the craft" just has an elitist ring to it....

I thought we were here to talk about our common interest in spinning wood and aiming a sharp object at it, help others that have questions and have some fun....

Mac

I think a small bore round like the 22 magnum might be faster and more accurate, Owen.. Easier to get dowels in that size, too... at least on the entry side.. *g*

Personally, I think that Arch should work on a system that holds the wood in place while the drill press and lathe revolve around it.. drilling accurate holes on both sides at once.... Mac

My brother used to drill the screw holes BIGGER and glue little turned pegs in them for "legs"... lol

Mac

Maybe cork on the bottom and flocking inside? *lol*

Mac

Well, there you go!!!

Have a two-head drill press (or use a lathe-type setup with one bit in the headstock and the other in the tailstock) with the bits aligned opposite each other - cutting edge to cutting edge. Clamp the wood between the heads and then drill into the blank from both sides.

Stop it Owen! I just got a flyer advertising a sale on super long point Forstner bits this morning. Keep this up and they'll be putting out a special edition catalog. :)

Mac, Ain't it enough that my lathe walks around the shop. Now you want me to teach it how to do cartwheels! :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Arch-

Any reason it has to be drilled on the drill press?

If you get a drill chuck with a morse taper that fits your tail stock and chuck a forsner bit into it, you can drill on the same axis on your lathe. I don't have jaws that small myself, but I use the drill chuck all the time for drilling lamps with a stupidly long bit, and it works great. Also good for making a reference hole before hollowing to make sure you're not going to make yourself a funnel.