Bart, Greetings!

Could you trim one end of your blanks to fit the head-stock morse taper?
And hold it in with the tail-stock centre. Friction will do the rest.

Malcolm Cobb

Bart V wrote in message ...
Hi folks,
I need to make a short length of spindle, approx 2" long & 1/4"
diameter (does not have to be exact), out of ebony (hard & dense). I
do not have a chuck on my lathe, all I got is a face plate (yup, Santa
is aware of that...). Any down & dirty tricks, do it on my drill press
perhaps?
Bart.
P.S. no pics yet, but been playing up a storm on that banjo I just
made ))
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