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What’s on your lathe?

It is Free Bowl Wednesday and a chance to try out my headstock extension for sanding.
Bowls and vases with cracks repaired are given away. Nothing wrong with them but it’s is not first quality so I won’t sell them. This walnut had a crack in the bottom and one on the rim and I have a list of people that want the “seconds”.
The extension is something I saw Glenn Lucas using for sanding only and I decided to order one. It extends the chuck out enough to allow easy access to power sand. It ran very true and I had to us two plastic spacers for the old Nova chuck. I tried the Stronghold just to see and it only required one plastic spacers.

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