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27th December 2011, 01:12 PM #16GOLD MEMBER
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I have a brand new Sorby version in the metal box that has not yet been on a lathe. I bought it at an estate auction of a Wood worker. I had the plain bore drilled out and threaded to 1 inch X 8 TPI.
The machinist even fitted it to my Delta headstock spindle.So much timber, so little time.
Paul
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1st January 2012, 05:04 PM #17
Had something similar made or supplied by Woodfast, a three jaw version.
It was the bees knees until the Nova scroll chucks came out.Stay sharp and stay safe!
Neil
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1st January 2012, 05:43 PM #18New Member
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Thanks for all the responses. I am pretty sure that what is in the photo is all I got with the chuck when it arrived. Perhaps over time, what was considered standard began to include more options to cope with increasing chuck competition in the market.
I got in touch with Peter Child's site in an attempt to get the manual for the Child's Coil Chuck and they were going to fax it to me as they didn't have an electronic version (??) but the Festive season got in the way.
I also was happy to find out that the current models of Nova chuck accessories will fit the original body so that might open up some options for the future as well.
I started reading some of the books I had from the 'old days' - ones by Peter Child (autographed!), Ray Key, Anders Thorlin with Steven Hogbin to come, but realised that I have lost some of the old classics, like the one by Frank Pain. Still I am enjoying renewing my acquaintance with the lathe. It is starting to feel like riding a bike - it's coming back a lot faster than I thought it would. There's no quality to it as yet, but hope springs eternal!
Thanks again for all the input.
Frank
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2nd January 2012, 12:40 PM #19
Frank - I presume your Peter Child's book is his The Craftsman Woodturner, which I found indispensable when it first came out 40 years ago. Just found my copy ( alas, not signed ) and it takes me back to the techniques and technologies of the time. Most of the fundamentals still apply, but looking through the book now it strikes me just how much development there has been over the last four decades in the tools and equipment available to woodturners, particularly for faceplate work, and the much wider range of shapes and designs that are now possible.
Well worth re-reading those early classics, but if I was getting back into woodturning again after an absence of many decades I would be adding some more recent references, maybe starting with anything from Richard Raffan.Stay sharp and stay safe!
Neil
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2nd January 2012, 02:15 PM #20New Member
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Thanks for the suggestion, Neil.
That was the intention but I have had the purse strings tightened by 'the bookkeeper' for a bit following Christmas. However, I have been looking at Richard Raffan's books online and will certainly get one in the near future.
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2nd January 2012, 07:10 PM #21
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19th December 2015, 04:46 PM #22New Member
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hi all
I have just inherited a lathe and a box with this chuck see picture from FrankMac59
looking at the picture from texx
I am missing some of the jaws but apart from that it appears complete.
does anyone have the manuals for this.
thanks
Ross
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22nd December 2015, 09:41 PM #23New Member
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hi Marcopolo
would love to know what you have and have them sent to me in Australia.
COD or can have a bank check or cash sent to you.
regards
Ross Heseltine
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23rd December 2015, 06:09 PM #24SENIOR MEMBER
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I have a Sorby chuck that looks a lot like that. I will look at again tomorrow. It has the instruction book. From my experience with it I decided that Mr Sorby disliked wood turners, because it is a cow of a thing to use. (But what would I know?)
If it a collectors item, then some one can collect it from me in exchange for dollars and I will convert that into real chuck/s.
YMMV.
Alister.
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