the chuck came this afternoon, and I put it together and mounted it.
I took a piece of walnut, cut it down to 6 inches, and used the tail stock to round it out, all is well.
Started to shape a knob.
All is well.
Took away the tail stock and carved out a little of the knobs face to give it a drop of shape.
Took out the skew, gave it some lines, all is well.
I sharpened the parting tool same as I sharpened the gouges and skew, but the parting tool kept burning on the walnut, was not having any luck.
I pushed hard, the wood jetisoned off the chuck, and that was that.
Tomorrow is another day. I thought I could part off that knob and start on another one trying to duplicate the first one.
Maybe really dry walnut is a tough cookie and I should stick to something softer?
An extremely frustrating experience, spent 2 hours and turned out nothing.
I came upstairs to look up walnut knobs and pulls, but my daughter told me the unit wont be the same if I buy in parts.
Shed rather have my junk work than professionally spun knobs.