| | |  | Bench Dog | Home » » » PSI Woodworking CJAWFJ1 Small Flat Lathe Chuck Jaws | | | | | | | Description: | | The Barracuda scroll lathe chuck from PSI Woodworking has jaws that open to accommodate a 5-inch bowl, and it's designed to allow you to finish bowls so it's ideal for turning bowl bottoms. The Barracuda is easy to adjust, with a three-position peg system. The small, flat jaws are compatible with all the PSI Woodworking 'C' style chucks. | | | Features: | |
• Scroll lathe chuck designed for finishing bowl bottoms
• Jaws open to accommodate a 5-inch bowl
• Easy to adjust sizes with the 3-position peg system
• Compatible with all the PSI Woodworking 'C' style chucks
• Weighs 2 pounds shipped
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.75 inches | | Package Length:
| 4.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.66 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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 Does not fit NOVA G3 Chuck, Made in China junkJan 15, 2010
I don't know what the other reviewers got that was worth 5 stars but what I got sure wasn't. First of all, they do not fit all C class chucks. They are bass ackwards for the Nova G3 Chuck by Tekna Tool and from everything that I could find on it the Nova chuck is supposed to be a C class chuck. But even if they had fit I would have sent them back. With only the 3 holes to choose from there are large gaps in the diameters that they will hold. They need at least 5 or 6 holes to have overlapping sizes that each set of holes will fit. Then they will fit any diameter between the min and max. Its very frustrating to find out that after you get the bowl turned and took the other jaws off of the chuck to put these on and the chuck back on the lathe only to find that when you try to chuck on the bowl, it wont fit, too small for the farthest out holes to work and the jaws wont go small enough. Move the pins in to the next set of holes, now the bowls too big and the jaws wont run out big enough. So whats the use of having them?
And to top it all off, turn them over and stamped on the back what do you see? That trade mark of quality, Made In China! (that's sarcasm there) The ones that I got were still rough castings all over. The areas on the back of them that fit against the hard jaws or master jaws of the chuck are still rough casting. This makes the jaws sit cockeyed. The locating surfaces should be machined so they sit flat on the master jaws. They should at least have the rough goobers from the casting ground off. These don't even have the rough edges from the mold ground off. They probably cost a whole 25 cents, or less, to be made in Chine then PSI marks them up 10,000% and sells them here. After being a machinist for over 20 years if I was the machinist that made these things I would be embarrassed to let anybody see them and ashamed of myself to try to sell them. Whoever made these cut every corner they possibly could to make them as cheap as possible. The only way they could have been made cheaper would be to cast the holes in them instead of drilling them. As it is they only drilled half as many holes as they should have. Just because woodturning doesn't require the same precision that machining does is no excuse to make such poor quality tools to do it.
At least with the Nova G3 Tekna Tool chuck I could go to WoodCraft and get a set jaws that are good ones. They may cost twice as much but they sit flat on the master jaws and have 6 holes in them to have overlapping coverage of diameters.
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 Great product for woodturningFeb 29, 2008
I've used this product many times already with the PennState Industries Barracuda Chuck system. Very easy to set up and use. Great for gripping those small bowl feet and other disc-like turnings. Keep it clean and it will last you a long time.
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