Roger Tulk
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...of this tool shown here. I bought it last year at MLCS without looking at it real hard, and assumed it was a live centre. It isn't, of course, it's a drive centre. Now, yesterday I couldn't find where I had put my spur centres last fall, so I tried this one. I had it on one end of a piece of spalted maple, and a 15/16" Forstner bit on the other end. I turned on the lathe, and the wood turned a quarter turn and sat there with the centre spinning madly to no effect. I dug around a little more, and finally found my spur centres, and put them to effective use.
I haven't tried it, but I imagine that any gouge would stop the wood dead in its tracks, so what use is this kind of centre put to? Is it just reefed down really tight, or used for some special purpose?
I haven't tried it, but I imagine that any gouge would stop the wood dead in its tracks, so what use is this kind of centre put to? Is it just reefed down really tight, or used for some special purpose?