I'm hardly a turner, still waiting for my nest lathe to show up (someday, maybe this year) before I get too serious. Right now all I have is an inexpensive spindle turning lathe. Anyway: I just bought a used Talon chuck with several sets of extra jaws. One set is called flat jaws, and it looks to me like they are used as a faceplate with the chuck? Does that sound right?

Fred,

 

Flat Jaws are designed to accommodate custom wooden jaw sets for those odd shaped pieces or extremely delicate pieces where you do not want to damage the wood.

 

Most of them have many holes so you can put in blocks or pins to hold the piece. I use a set of flat jaws to reverse a bowl to hold it while I finish the bottom after hollowing out the bowl.

 

Hope that makes sense.

They are sometimes called COLE jaws.  They are good accessories to have.

Yep, that is what I was talking about.

 

Thanks Greg, a picture is always better.

 

Greg Coleman said:

They are sometimes called COLE jaws.  They are good accessories to have.

Thanks, Guys. That makes sense...

I never heard them referred to as flat jaws, so I was kinda wondering what it might be.  COLE jaws  is what I know them as.

 

However flats jaws makes sense also.   Live and learn.