Hi Jim,
After seeing the prices of these chucks, I make my own out of hardwood
plywood.

About the hardest thing to find to make it is rubber stoppers with a
hole thru the center. A medical supply house will have these. Cant
remember what they are called but the sides are tapered.

You align your bowl on this jaw using the live center in your
tailstock with the center of the bottom of your bowl and use the
tailstock to apply pressure to the bowl and hold it in place. Then you
slide the rubber bumpers snugly next to the side of the bowl and lock
them down.

Once all the rubber bumpers are locked down you remove the tailstock
out of the way and finish the bottom of your bowl.

I think I may have drawings I made to make mine with, but, right now I
dont have a way to make a pdf of those drawings. The best I would be
able to give you is a .jpg of the drawing.

cad


On Feb 18, 12:04 pm, "MinnJim" wrote:
Hi,
Somewhere in this group I remember seeing a bit on holding the "lip"
of a bowl to finish turning the tenon etc. of the base. I"m using a
Talon 4 jaw chuck on a base tenon, but hate cutting/sanding off the
tenon after I've completed the inside/outside part of the bowl. If I
remember correctly it was a wooden addition/jaws set up to be used
with the 4 jaw chuck. It may have been a face plate/wood jaw device
also? I've tried searching this group but can"t find it. Any help
would be appreciated.
MinnJim