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This should help!

I was given 8 slices of Ash, around 250mm diameter and and about 35mm thick - I season quite a lot of timber for turning and had them stacked outside with good separation between them - after 2 years only 2 of them hadn’t split - and when I cut through the split ones the middle was still over...

It’s a bit of a faff, and a lot more work than just using 8mm or 10mm dowels as Daniel said, but you could make one

OK Fergie, they are yours! Sorry Rob, but knowing I can get rid of them I have now filled the space with other stuff!!!

I’ll give him until this time tomorrow and then it’s a date!

Absolutely!

Something like Plan de travail du bois, rabot convexe ou concave!

I have two chucks and assorted jaws with a thread adaptor for the chucks that will fit the 3/4” thread on your lathe - they are just gathering dust in my workshop so if you want them PM me - they are quite heavy so unless you can pick up from Northants will need to post them - I don’t want...

It looks like you have a small screw chuck on the bench under the middle of the lathe - if that fits securely in the jaws you could screw that into a small blank, bring the tailstock up and have a go while you are waiting for the faceplate…

Blimey - like many I stumbled into it through desire rather than any skill - I bought a 2nd hand Clarke CWL1000 through eBay which, to my wife’s disgust, stayed in our kitchen for about 6 months before we moved and I had room in my workshop. Anything over about an 8” bowl would shake the frame...

Finished the slightly uglier bigger brother to the last bowl - it was very old, very hard and very dry lump of elm and if I never turn an elm and resin bowl again it will be too soon! (Although the last piece of the slab is in resin and might try some sort of vase..!!)

Just finished this bowl.. Hi all - my name is Jason, this is my first post!