A Womack wrote:

How do you hold such small pieces on the lathe?

Alan

They don't start out small - the 5/8" square or 1/2" round
blank held in the "pin jaws" (which close down to about 1/2"
diameter) of a scroll chuck on the drive end of the JET mini
lathe- get turned down smaller and smaller - starting at the
unsupported end and THEN, in small increments, back towards
the tail stock/chuck. See the third picture on this page -

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...urning14C.html

charlie b