I recently noticed that several dealers no longer sell the Easy Scroll Chuck? I know that the company was sold, but what's up with the chucks?
Didn't realize they sold. Who bought it?
Some people own a single chuck with multiple jaws; others have dedicated chucks.
Right, but Packard and Craft Supplies no longer sell them.
The late Bill Rubenstein showed me a neat trick that he used for quick jaw changes. He bought extra sets of base jaws and left them permanently attached to the top jaws. He removed the roll pin so that the jaws could be completely ejected from the scroll. It was a little slower than changing jaws on the EWT chuck and a little faster than unscrewing the top jaws.
I checked the Easy Wood Tools website and they are showing out of stock for the chuck (except for metric size) and all of their jaws.
Sound like the infamous fence posts and rails problem one has to be biggerWell I had 4 chucks (2 of them off brand the rest Vicmarcs). I had 5 sets of jaws. So I decided next AAW symposium I would buy another chuck so that all my jaws would be mounted. So I went to the Vicmarc dealer and grabbed another chuck. He says, hey let me show you our new 5" jaws for that chuck. Had to have them. Oops. Now I have 5 chucks and 6 sets of jaws. Well OK if you count the homemade ones and the Mega jaws I actually have 8 set of jaws so I guess I need more chucks.
Actually, even if you are the "one chuck: one set of jaws" person, you really need an extra jaw for each size: You need a quick way to check the tenon shape. Nothing faster than butting up a spare unmounted jaw (single jaw) against your tenon (still on lathe). You can assure that your flat is wide enough and your tenon is not too deep.Sound like the infamous fence posts and rails problem one has to be bigger
From Stuart Batty, "The difference between a British turner, and an American turner??? A British turner has one chuck and 10 sets of jaws. An American turner has 10 chucks and 10 sets of jaws."
The Easy Scroll chuck did have a manufacturing problem, and I think it was with the quick scroll part of the chuck. I know they were 'working' on it. Last I had heard they would be at the Symposium...
From Stuart Batty, "The difference between a British turner, and an American turner??? A British turner has one chuck and 10 sets of jaws. An American turner has 10 chucks and 10 sets of jaws."
I found that funny....
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Originally they were sold to the Adjustable Clamp Company (makers of Pony and Adjustable brand clamps),, but continued to operate as a separate division in their same facility and the owner became a VP. About a year later, Adjustable went belly up and ceased all operations, but the Easy Wood Tools division was allowed to continue to operate while searching for a buyer since it was the only profitable part of the company. Fortunately a buyer was found and I think that EWT was able to remain in the same facility with the same employees.
I've seen the EWT chuck and it looked like it was very well made and the jaw change feature was nice, but the price was too high for me to consider buying it. Even after the $100 price reduction it was still to expensive for me to consider buying one. Changing jaws on a chuck isn't something that I do often and when I do, it isn't a big deal anyway.
We had to cease production of the Easy Chuck and Jaws, temporarily, due to a few vendor issues.
We have most certainly not stopped production on the Easy Chuck and Jaws forever and I cannot imagine that we ever will. J
The vendor issues are in the ending stages of being resolved and the plan is to have the Easy Chuck and Jaws back on the market by the end of summer.