Hi,
I find that one of the real challenges of woodturning apart from the dreaded
catch is how to hold things. I have been thinking about buying the flat
Oneway jaws that allow you to screw on pieces of wood to create your own
special jaws.

If you went this route, do you consider it money well spent?

Thanks,
billh

On Tue, 9 May 2006 09:37:43 -0400, "billh" wrote:

Hi,
I find that one of the real challenges of woodturning apart from the dreaded
catch is how to hold things. I have been thinking about buying the flat
Oneway jaws that allow you to screw on pieces of wood to create your own
special jaws.

If you went this route, do you consider it money well spent?

Thanks,
billh

I don't know, Bill.. but hope this thread helps us both..

I've got the jumbo jaws and have "almost" bought the flat jaws several times to
play with making jaw sets...
I keep visualizing something like a bowl shaped piece like you'd use for a jam
chuck, cut in 4 quarters and used on the flat jaws to expand inside the work..
Mac

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mac davis wrote:

I've got the jumbo jaws and have "almost" bought the flat jaws several times to
play with making jaw sets...
I keep visualizing something like a bowl shaped piece like you'd use for a jam
chuck, cut in 4 quarters and used on the flat jaws to expand inside the work..

If you have the jumbo jaws, why not fasten pieces of wood to those? I
have several sets for various purposes.

--
Derek Andrews, woodturner

http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com
http://chipshop.blogspot.com - a blog for my customers
http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com/TheToolrest/ - a blog for woodturners

Hi Bill
When does one consider money "well spend" for a hobby ??, or is this
business ??
It depends a lot on what kind of turning you do, but I have several
sizes of 1/4 pies for my mega jumbo jaws in order to hold larger
platters and bowls for reverse turning and cleaning up the feet, and
holding shapes that are not safe to hold with just the rubber bumpers
that come with the jumbo jaws.
For small turnings the rubber bumpers can be screwed right onto the
chuck to hold some shapes just fine, but for certain shapes it would be
very hard to do without special jaws and then those flat jaws are a god
send, like lets say you want to turn a bunch of egg shapes and rather
than hand sand that last parted off end, you could make some jaw to
hold them and do the final sanding and shaping in the lathe, yes there
are other ways to do this but jaws like these can hold them more easily
when the sizes are little off, like I said "it depends", just another
trick up your sleeve.

$30.-- spend better on those jaws than a bottle of booze IMO.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Hi Mac
What's stopping you ?? it does not have to be fancy to do those things,
just imaging, you take 4 chunks of 4X4 you screw those onto the flat
jaws, turn a groove into them, even just into the corners will do a lot
of times, now you have that whatever shaped bowl you could not hold
before and place it on the just made jaws and open up your chuck and
your ready to finish that bottom or whatever, carefully.
I very often use masking tape to keep jaws from damaging turnings,
double sided tape with a small piece of cloth on the the outside works
fine also, just more of a hassle, but needed sometimes.
There are all kinds of ways to do things, just use your imagination and
$35.-- won't break the bank !!

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:59:29 GMT, Derek Andrews
wrote:

mac davis wrote:

I've got the jumbo jaws and have "almost" bought the flat jaws several times to
play with making jaw sets...
I keep visualizing something like a bowl shaped piece like you'd use for a jam
chuck, cut in 4 quarters and used on the flat jaws to expand inside the work..

If you have the jumbo jaws, why not fasten pieces of wood to those? I
have several sets for various purposes.

I might now Derek, since I finally got the vac system on both lathes...

I've been keeping one chuck dedicated to the jumbo jaws with the normal feet in
the hope that I'll finish more bowls... I have the bad habit of letting bowls
that are done except for the bottom stack up until "I get the jumbo jaws on"...

Some are so warped by that time that I HAVE to use the vacuum chuck.. lol

Mac

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https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm

On 9 May 2006 21:58:53 -0700, "
wrote:

Hi Mac
What's stopping you ?? it does not have to be fancy to do those things,
just imaging, you take 4 chunks of 4X4 you screw those onto the flat
jaws, turn a groove into them, even just into the corners will do a lot
of times, now you have that whatever shaped bowl you could not hold
before and place it on the just made jaws and open up your chuck and
your ready to finish that bottom or whatever, carefully.
I very often use masking tape to keep jaws from damaging turnings,
double sided tape with a small piece of cloth on the the outside works
fine also, just more of a hassle, but needed sometimes.
There are all kinds of ways to do things, just use your imagination and
$35.-- won't break the bank !!

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Mainly too many irons in the fire, Leo... I tend to get distracted from one
project to make a new jig or take on some new thing... (like the damn pen
addiction)

Right now, I have the jumbo jaws and the vacuum chuck... before those, I should
have bought the flat jaws...
Then again, I should have bought the jumbo jaws at least a year before I did,
and not used all that time trying to build ring clamps, friction chucks, etc...


Mac

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Why buy a set of flat jaws? They appear to be a means to attach other jaws
to the chuck. The sliders, or whatever they are correctly called, already
are threaded for bolts to hold jaw attachments. Why not make your own set of
jaws for the the sliders? I am away for a couple of weeks on a course
(theology, not woodworking) but when I get back I will tackle the idea for
the web page. By the way, this is for those of us who enjoy making our own
tools. The cost of the flat jaws is certainly not prohibitive. On the other
hand, who else is going to use the things except someone who likes to make
their own tools?

--
God bless and safe turning
Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS Canada
www.aroundthewoods.com

Hi Darrell

Yes your right Darrell, you can use the master jaws for screwing soft
jaws onto them, and I have done so in the past, the problem with that
is as I found out, there is a very small footprint and the screws are
very close to the narrow end of the soft jaws, it's not very strong
when using wood, the flat jaws give you a larger base to screw your
soft jaws onto and the metal of the flat jaws has more strength than
wooden ones.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Guys, what am I missing here?
I've got a Stronghold and a Talon. I thought I'd gotten all except the Jumbo
jaws. "Flat jaws" and "soft" are losing me. Got to mb my flaw I'm sure but
help me understand. Thanks.

TomNie

Tom
The idea of a flat jaw is that it is not really a jaw per se, it is a flat
piece that attaches to the sliders and makes it easy to attach home made
jaws. In other words, they are base pieces for hame made jaws. Soft jaws are
just that, jaws made from softer material than metal, say plastic, wood, UDF
or what have you.

--
God bless and safe turning
Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS Canada
www.aroundthewoods.com

On Wed, 10 May 2006 17:39:41 -0400, "Tom Nie" wrote:

Guys, what am I missing here?
I've got a Stronghold and a Talon. I thought I'd gotten all except the Jumbo
jaws. "Flat jaws" and "soft" are losing me. Got to mb my flaw I'm sure but
help me understand. Thanks.

TomNie


They look like this, Tom...

http://www.oneway.ca/chucks/accessories/flat_jaws.htm

I'm sort of guessing that the threaded holes might fit the holders from the
jumbo jaws, too...
(before the vacuum chuck, I would have liked to use the jumbo jaws on the mini,
but they were a little too jumbo)

Mac

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Tom
The idea of a flat jaw is that it is not really a jaw per se, it is a flat
piece that attaches to the sliders and makes it easy to attach home made
jaws. In other words, they are base pieces for hame made jaws. Soft jaws
are
just that, jaws made from softer material than metal, say plastic, wood,
UDF
or what have you.

One's a jig, one a jaw.