"Hay" Cole! (Hay means, "Hello", for those of you on the other side of the pond.) ;-p I will send you a picture when I can, but this simple jig can be made by anyone who owns a lathe with out any problems. (Yes its easer for those who own a steel lathe, but even a wood lathe with a Jacobs chuck can do this with out much troubles.) ;-) I could even do it on the Legacy, if I wanted to spend a hole day drilling at a S L O W, S P E E D. ;-P Wait! I know that I said that with a Tung and cheek expression, BUT Why not buy a 1x8 dia. at any machine supply store, and then you could make this jig out of wood ,alum. or plastic, You do not have to be stuck, working with steel , any material that can be made to fit a 1x8 thread could be used. Its just a pointer/indexing method to put a piece of wood onto a faceplate, nothing fancy is really needed here. Now that I think about it, There is a third way you can get this job done easily. mark an Big X in the center of your wood, and then place the faceplate on the wood, and by eye, align the hole of the faceplate with the X, you should get pretty close by lining the wood up this way. (that is at least until you get your jig made up. :-) .) C.A.G.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cole Andrews" <coleandrew...@gmail.com> To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:19:49 PM Subject: Re: finding center for a faceplate. Thanks I like both of those , a lot better than my eyeball is what I am after. Trying to Learn a new skill . Want to make a lid for a box On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, CURTIS GEORGE < curtgeo...@wowway.com > wrote: Hello Everyone, I made a tool a few years back that was made out of a 1x8 all thread rod, with a center pin set in the middle of it, When I was mounting a turning that was not centered I could use my independent chuck with and on it even though the turning was not centered any more. this device could be used on faceplates as well. What I did was cut a 2" piece of all thread rod, and mount it in a lathe, using a center drill I, drilled the center and put a spur in the hole, and then drilled another hole across the ATR (All Thread rod.) so to make a turn screw out of it. I went one step farther, by drilling out the center on the back side of the ATR with a 5/8" hole, so it can be mounted on my Shop-smith lathe, ( I know you don't need this extra hole, but for me it greatly speeded up production time, for my re-polishing of old dummy arms, ones that are cut off center with a band saw, after the turnings are completed. I have pictures of this, (I can send you them when I get home.) on my computer, but Im at work at this min. and will not be home until at least midnight. gota run!!!! more latter. C.A.G. From: "Okla Mike (Liltwisted)" < legacym...@iglide.net > To: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 4:54:35 PM Subject: Re: finding center for a faceplate. 1. Get it as close as you can and re-mill the outer edge 2. Fit a dowel in your face plate center. Mill a hole in the MDF while on the rotary table the same size. Dowel will be the alignment and be pulled out when the MDF is secured to the plate. I choose 1. But since I waste a lot of face boards I have a dowel with a finish nail in the center. I drill a hole, use a compass to draw my plate size, band-saw to size, mill to perfection while spinning. Mike OK On 10/13/2015 11:53 AM, cole wrote: <blockquote> yes , turned a piece of mdf on the rotary table and I want to mount a faceplate dead center so I can mount stock to it with tape. On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 12:08:04 PM UTC-4, Tim wrote: <blockquote> So you have a piece that is already round that you are trying to center on a face plate. Is that correct? -Tim <blockquote> ----- Original Message ----- From: cole To: Legacy Ornamental Mills Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:04 AM Subject: finding center for a faceplate. I know its in here already but have not been able to find post. I would like to try faceplate turning and i think I need to find exact center of stock before I screw it down . Is there tool or punch that would sit inside my faceplate ? 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