Sorry, still getting my laptop sea legs back here. Anyhow, I want to
turn the pieces down in diameter. Now, these pieces are of course
"finished" (albeit pretty rough, it's a cheap Turkish set to be sure,
but sooo pretty), each having a sort of neato mosaic type design
embedded in the center or each piece, etc. So, it's certainly
unfeasible to attach multple pieces on an arbor, as I can't make a hole
in the middle without really tearing them up. So, how the heck does
one go about turning down a stack of no-center-hole disks like this?
About all I can come up with is
a) do them individually, by chucking each in a collet (hopefully;
they're a little 1", naturally...) and taking down ~ 1/2 of the disk
thickness, and then turning each around and taking the other half
down...yuck...
b) perhaps double-back taping them together and then a rough end piece
on either end of the stack, that can both be center-drilled and mounted
between centers, etc.; could "clamp" them between the centers pretty
tight this way, and thus help make sure all those double-back tape
pieces hang in there while turning the pieces down...
c)...?

I work with a lot of optics, and in that world they wax the disks
together and melt them apart after turning down...I fear I'd really
mess up the mosaic'd faces doing something like that, tho.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated--
Charley Hale