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Oneway Jumbo Jaws - mini review

I finally broke down and bought a set, after trying shop made ring clamps, turner's tape on the face plate, sock on the chuck, etc... I just didn't want to part with the $90, and didn't want to have another set of jaws to change..

I bought a set for my Oneway Talon chuck at the local saw shop yesterday morning and had to try them out... Bottom line: I should have just bought these suckers when I got the chuck, or at least the following week, when I bought the spigot jaws... they're wonderful!

A: they're more than worth the money, IMO, for the time they save and for the (for me) vast improvement of the bottom of my bowls and boxes..

B: I should have realized that you don't change jaws for every bowl... I didn't use the ring clamp every time I finished a bowl before, I waited until I had enough bowls that needed bottom work and then did them all in one session..

I had a stack of bowls waiting for me to do the bottoms, my least favorite part of bowl turning... probably about 15 of assorted shapes and sizes.. I did the first 2 or 3 in the time that it would have taken me to put ONE bowl in the ring chuck and get it centered and running true!

I haven't tried some of the tricks you can do with these jaws, like using the rubber grippers screwed directly onto the chuck as a mini vise, bit I can see where this is going to be a very useful tool...

IMHO, if new turners had these jaws, there would be much less frustration and more joy in bowl turning.. YMMV

mac

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I made plywood plates to extend the bowl size mine will hold. Got an extra set of rubber grippers and longer screws for this. Today I had a bowl with a curving downturning flange which made the grippers too short to use. I used two stacked grippers on a longer screw and it worked great.

I have had bowls which were between sizes and the grippers would not close enough to grip it and in the next set of holes were too small to get the bowl in. I found that smaller grippers made from the caps on door stops are useful occasionally for intermediate sizes like this.

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Gerald Ross

wouldn't you use the slots for in between sizes? I haven't tried them yet, I'm too lazy to do the washer and nut thing.. *g*

Last night, I got tired of moving the grippers around and left "small bowl" set of 4 on the jaws and moved the other 4 a couple of holes further out... works well, if you don't need 8 gripping points, because if the bowl is big enough to need the outside ring, it's deep enough to fit over the inside ring.. (I really AM lazy)

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