recommended wood lathe for talon or oneway chuck?

[bscofield]

I want a wood lathe that is powerful enough to turn and drill on. I also want it to be able to take a talon or oneway chuck. Is the only difference between these to chucks the width of a block it will handle??

What are your recommendations and where I can obtain them? Thanks!!

[Tano]

High ben,
My recomendation for a wood lathe is the Delta Midi lathe. I chose it over the General Mini, because it has more slow speed range. This will give you more variety in drilling, sanding, and buffing. Also I chose the Talon chuck because I didn't want to deal with the two handles for tightening the jaws. I did assesorise the chuck with three different types of jaws. Of the three, I found the spigot and the tower jaws to be the most usefull. I beleive that Jet is the comparable to Delta. Hope this info is helpfull.

http://www.general.ca/pagemach/acces/lathe.html
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_de ... okietest=1
http://www.oneway.on.ca/chucks/owchucks.htm
http://www.wmhtoolgroup.com/ourproducts ... D=1&CID=81

[KurtHuhn]

I use a Oneway on a Jet Mini (identical to the Delta Midi). I also use a combination of spigot, Tower, and #2 profile jaws. I recommend this outfit highly.

I am, however, looking at a larger Jet wood lathe to accomodate some of the larger turning that I want to do.

[bscofield]

what uses have you guys found for each of your different jaw types?

[bvartist]

Spigot Jaws, great for stem work, drilling delrin, rod stock, turning inlays etc. #2 profiled jaws I use for turning and drilling stummels. Haven't purchased the #2 tower jaws yet. I'm waiting until I can afford another chuck body so I don't have to change jaws all the time. I use a talon chuck for the one-handed operation.

David

[Nick]

My Delta midi has been great so far.

Not sure about the chuck choice. I picked up a Rohm chuck in trade with some custom jaws.