Hi Phill! I think you have been given lots of excellent advice here. There is a whole bunch of turning you can do without a chuck. As I read this thread, I wondered why you thought you needed a lathe chuck. You can turn bowls without one, you can turn candle holders without one, you can turn pepper mills, toothpick dispensers, etc without a lathe chuck.
You probably will need a drive center however. (505715 Lathe Drive Center
Price $29.99) That's about as least expensive as you can find.
Other Shopsmith centers can be found here. http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... enters.htm
In my humble Opinion, buying cheap tool that will be thrown away later is a huge waste of money. Especially when we don't have much to begin with.
Lathe chuck compatibility?
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