allen levine
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I didnt want to come onto this end of the site and start with all the beginner questions. A few about chucks and lathes, but figured Id wing it from there.
After alot, and I mean alot of attempts today and tonight at chucking up all size blocks and dowels, I finally figured I can get something cooking.
I seem not to be able to rechuck a squared piece exactly, so I rounded over a square long piece.
Then I cut out a simple knob and instead of doing anything to seperate on lathe, I decided to take out of chuck, and cut off with enough extra for mistakes.
So I had the perfectly round piece, a knob cut out on one end, cut it off, made sure the cut was 90 degrees, and rechucked it with other end so I can dig out a little of the face of the knob.
Problem is, it keeps coming out off center and I cant figure out why?
Its the same size round piece, I purposely left an inch of same size to rechuck exact same way, and I cant carve out dead center.
What am I doing wrong?
I think I used 15 bf of spanish cedar today to get one knob which I havent gotten yet. I had alot of them crack off, one flew out of chuck.
This is what I mean off center.
After alot, and I mean alot of attempts today and tonight at chucking up all size blocks and dowels, I finally figured I can get something cooking.
I seem not to be able to rechuck a squared piece exactly, so I rounded over a square long piece.
Then I cut out a simple knob and instead of doing anything to seperate on lathe, I decided to take out of chuck, and cut off with enough extra for mistakes.
So I had the perfectly round piece, a knob cut out on one end, cut it off, made sure the cut was 90 degrees, and rechucked it with other end so I can dig out a little of the face of the knob.
Problem is, it keeps coming out off center and I cant figure out why?
Its the same size round piece, I purposely left an inch of same size to rechuck exact same way, and I cant carve out dead center.
What am I doing wrong?
I think I used 15 bf of spanish cedar today to get one knob which I havent gotten yet. I had alot of them crack off, one flew out of chuck.
This is what I mean off center.
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