Hi Peter, Rings are less expensive than commercial faceplates, but
consider making or having made several bespoke multiscrewchucks, aka
faceplates . They don't need a scroll chuck and IMO hold better and
are stronger than rings fixed in chuck jaws.

Nuts and the steel plates welded to them are relatively cheap and
readily available. Also junkyard flanged couplings etc. can be drilled
and tapped to fit your lathe.

Trueing the blank or an interposed sacrificial block makes a perfect
faceplate unnecessary, but make sure it registers firmly on the spindle
hub or bearing cage. Just one of many ways to hold a blank.


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