Dave Balderstone wrote:


If I had to do it again (and wasn't under the time pressure of
Christmas shipping across the continent) I'd buy the proper sized
forstener bit and drill the blank before it got near the lathe. As it
"turned out" I had the piece between centers, chucked with a tenon,
screwed to a face plate, AND chucked inside the hole for the clock by
the time I was done.



You missed the jam chuck? )