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I trim my blanks on a metal lathe in a universal four jaw chuck. In fact most of my pen turning is done on a metal lathe.
I have a wood lathe the only thing I use it for is drilling the blanks in a pen chuck. I can not get away with turning on a wood lathe the last time I tried the skew or what ever you call them ended up on the other side of the shed. It was not good.

[QUOTE="alpha1, post: 360768, member: 1847"] I trim my blanks on a metal lathe in a universal four jaw chuck. In fact most of my pen turning is done on a metal lathe. I have a wood lathe the only thing I use it for is drilling the blanks in a pen chuck. I can not get away with turning on a wood lathe the last time I tried the skew or what ever you call them ended up on the other side of the shed. It was not good. [/QUOTE]

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