I would go back to the Mcnaughton. One thing that helps is to get the
mahoney video and read Joe Flemings article.

The Hahoney video is really good and a good investment.

I use the center saver with cottonwood. My first attempt would bog down
my lathe on a big piece of cottonwood but after doing some reading and
watching the video I've had no problems

Andrew Barss wrote:
I briefly owned the McNasughton coring system, and found it
hard to use -- it stalled my 1.5HP Nova often, and I couldn't
control it easily.

But I've now realized that -- given the sort of wood I like to turn (burls
and exotics) -- the amount I'm losing by not using a corer
quickly adds up. So I'm reconsidering getting such a system.

Most of what I turn is pretty small -- bowls in the 9" x 9 x 4
down to e.g., small boxes from blackwood clarinet-bell rejects.

So... does anyone have experience with a corer system that will fairly
easily let me save cores from pretty small pieces of wood?


Thanks,

Andy Barss