yes, I can make them, the real question is, can I make them cheap
enough to be attrative?? I have the right tubing and washers, but I
don't have a handy shopsmith to test them on. So, time for some
thinking - I can do a couple of things, it seems:

1. make an adapter for shopsmith to 1"X8TPI, and then you can use my
standard faceplates (I can also make an adapter to 1.24X8TPI, but
that's pretty big for a shopsmith). The advantage is that you could
use all sorts of accessories that will fit a Jet or any other
mini/midi lathe and quit worrying about special shopsmith stuff - I'm
guessing I could make these for somewhere between $15 and $30, and
then you could get the cheap faceplates.

2. I can make faceplates for the shopsmith, but I'm guessing that they
would cost at least $15 - is that competitive?

your thoughts please? My goal here is to make good quality
inexpensive stuff that saves turners $$$$ - so I tend to not go after
stuff that is already available at

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:44:01 GMT, "Lyndell Thompson"
wrote:


"William B Noble (don't reply to this address)" wrote
in message ...
ok, for all you guys who got nice shiny lathes for Christmas, or any
other excuse - when you are ready to consider faceplates, (or a vacuum
chuck), feel free to visit my web site, www.wbnoble.com and look
around.
Bill

www.wbnoble.com

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Bill, I don't see them on your website but...........can you make faceplates
to use on a shopsmith? They are 5/8" smoothbore with allen setscrew. Just
figured it didn't hurt to ask.
Thanks Lyndell

Bill

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