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You can mark the centre at one end of the blank and make an indent then put it loosely in your jaws, bring up the tailstock with live-centre and put the indent onto the live centre and tighten the jaws. change the live centre for your bit holder and drill.

I used to do it like that, but now I just put the blank in the Jaws and visually check it is running close to true.

Peter

[QUOTE="Buckeye, post: 177623, member: 294"] You can mark the centre at one end of the blank and make an indent then put it loosely in your jaws, bring up the tailstock with live-centre and put the indent onto the live centre and tighten the jaws. change the live centre for your bit holder and drill. I used to do it like that, but now I just put the blank in the Jaws and visually check it is running close to true. Peter [/QUOTE]

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