Just cleaning around my lathe and I found a faceplate that attaches to it. I have the Grizzley 8690 lathe. What is the faceplate used for? Can I attach jaws to it to hold stock?

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Bob for turning bowls .... You can glue up a bunch of slabs of wood same or all different .. Now the end of the pile you've glued together coat completely with white glue and stick one sheet of newspaper to that .. Now take a scrap slab of wood and smear white glue all over oneside and stick that to the newspaper..Clamp it all together squeeze tight and comeback later when its dry ... When its dry screw faceplate to the scarp piece using wood screws only long enough to get a good bite but not going through to your work pieces .. Mount on lathe and turn your bowl .. When you are done remove work from lathe and wood chisel off scrap piece.. that newspaper should split right in half leaving you a nice clean bottom to your bowl ,,,lazy susan .. whatever,,,,woodshop 68

Thanks gang. Darn...thought I had a better way to carve out my popper mouths. Just can't get a 3 or 4 jaw chuck for that lathe. It's something like 3/4" x 10 tpi and no one makes that thread count for chucks. Oh well....back to the drawing board :smash:

LOL, That's a good one. I'd love to see a video of 4 plugs going round and round with someone scratching their head. Sounds like one of my esperiments :smash: :laughs:

Bob, you can get what is refered to as a scroll chuck at many of the wood turning specialty shops. They have different inserts to match diffetent headstock threads. I have a Nova scroll chuck with several types of jaws that I use to turn ..........BOWLS. I have never had much luck with the paper thing, then again i can stall a 3/4 hp motor with some of the cuts I take.

For doing popper mouths, I put my jacobs chuck in the headstock with a large Deming style drill in it and put my spur center in the tailstock and drill out the mouth that way.

Bob Thomas;
Make an adaptor for your 3 jaw chuck. Screw the chuck to the adaptor and the adaptor to the mounting threads on lathe.