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chucks

  1. R

    Ten questions

    1. anyone used Woodcut tool Max4 and if so, what is your impression? 2. i am new to hollowing and looking for recommendations for which brand of tools to buy?? 3. how do you set up a drying box and due they really work? 4. what is the best way to dry green turned wood? 5. i am new to...
    • Randy Duncan
    • Thread
    • chucks hairline cracks hollowing systems pentacryl red cedar finish salad bowl finish
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    • Forum: Getting Started
  2. Rusty Nesmith

    Amazing deal.

    I finally fell into a great deal. My friend taught a bowl class at our local Woodcraft. After his class he called me and told me they had some Record Power chucks they were going to discontinue and to call the manager. I went up to see the manager and he didn’t know what corporate was going to...
  3. J

    Cleaning finish off of chuck jaws

    I have been in production mode getting Christmas presents ready. I may spray eight coats of rattle can finish in a day. Although I try hard not to spray the chuck or jaws there is some overspray. I tried a piece of cardboard with a hole cut in it to slide over the jaws but it kept bouncing...
  4. A

    High School Engineering group needs your help.

    Hello all! I am a student attending my senior year of high school and am in the Purdue University PLTW EDD engineering class. We are required to design and create a prototype for a solution to a problem. Our problem is the wood-turning of non-radially symmetric or irregular shaped woods. -How...
  5. J

    Vacuum Chucking System Chucking Optomization

    In reading through the posts on this forum and reading aritlcles on the web, I have seen a lot of good information on building vacuum chucking systems and some good techniques for using them. Since I wrote the article on vacuum chucking in the February 2011 issue in the AW, the comments and...
  6. J

    Update on Vacuum Chucking Systems

    When I wrote the article on vacuum chucking systems for the Feb '11 issue of the AW, it generated a lot of discussion. Since then I have continued to investigate and work with vacuum chucking systems to solve serveral questions that have come up. For example: "I don't worry about leaks in my...
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