Face Plate Needed for old Craftsman Wood Lathe

[Don Whipple]

Where can I find a 6" face plate with 3/4" threads for my old Craftsman lathe?

[Doug Miller]

Six-inch? Dunno. Don't think Sears ever sold one. But you could buy three- and eight-inch faceplates at Sears as recently as a couple years ago.

Try crossposting to rec.crafts.woodturning also.

-- Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

[DJ Delorie]

Oneway can custom make faceplates to fit pretty much ANYTHING.

has faceplate "kits" - you buy the threaded insert separately, although it's 8". those fail, try rec.crafts.woodturning.

[Unisaw A100]

As common as dirt.

But first, a word of warning, you may not like the prices you find at the woodturning boutique catalogs. To that end, I have a spare 5 1/4" Gen-U-Whine Sears face plate that I could part with. Ping me on the back channel.

Otherwise you have,

Sears.

or,

or,

or,

Look for a Links page on the last site.

Oh, and look for 3/4-16.

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[Anthony Diodati]

No personal experience here, but I knew someone with the Grizzly faceplate "kits" and he said it did not run true. Get one a sears or from Unisaw A100 Tony D.

[Gerald Ross]

Try Barry Haythornwaite. He makes steel ones that won't crack like the cast iron ones may, and his prices are right. [e-mail]

[Unisaw A100]

Aside from dropping them (which I've done enough with no problems) what do you have to do to crack a face plate?

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[Jon Endres, PE]

I don't understand why anyone would need a 6" faceplate unless you're turning something about 18" diameter or larger.

Try this link - I bought a 2" faceplate from him for my Delta Homecraft lathe, and it's fine for anything I can turn inboard.

Endres

[Unisaw A100]

At the risk of losing a potential sale of my 5 1/4" to the original poster I'd have to agree with you Jon. When I started with my Craftsman lathe (50's vintage cast iron bed with 9" swing) I uses a 3" screw center face plate and eventually had another 3" screw center turned down to 1 1/4" which I used for a good 90% of what I turned. Now granted I turned smaller lidded bowls (bowels in rec.speak) but I think I can count on two hands the number of times I used a

4" face plate.

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[LRod]

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