On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:11:24 -0900, "Lynn Coffelt"
wrote:

OK, I have read and reread the scroll chuck posts going back a couple
of years or so. There are so many firm convictions about chucks, yet I am
still uncertain.
I am sure leaning towards purchasing the Grizzly $99 scroll chuck and
adding the accessory jaws.
I have very limited turning experience, but have been making a lot of
shavings (and dust) out of neighbor's firewood. I'd like to try something a
little more daring, like a bowl or dish with the base held in one of these
hi-fallootin internal/external foot grasping scroll chucks. The Grizzly
looks and feels fine (I've fondled one a couple of times with lust in my
eyes).
In what ways am I apt to be remorseful if I do the deed?
Old Chief Lynn

Probably none- I have, and use, a $40 Grizzly chuck with a set of
tommy bars, and it is perfectly adequate for anything I've used it for
in the last two or three years (and some of the stuff in that chuck
has been large enough to make my big lathe walk around the shop on
me.)

That isn't to say that a $300 chuck isn't built to a tighter spec or
made of better materials, but when free-hand turning, my opinion is
that if it doesn't let go of the work or cause the pieces to turn out
oval, it's good enough for my foolishness.

In any case, it's better to have a modest chuck you can afford than
not to have one at all because you're waiting for the best one ever to
fall into your lap!