Reply by Cousinwill

I pefer faceplates over using chucks. I purchaes a chuck last year and have used it one 3 or 4 times but I have used the faceplate method about a 100 times !!! Yes you do have to be careful with the size and weigh of the wood you are working with. I have had several pieces come off !! Anything over 10” in diameter I screw the face plate on the piece of wood I’m turning . Smaller blanks I glue a scrap piece of wood to the blank (with a piece of newspaper in between the block of wood and blank) and attach the faceplate to the scrap wood. I use Titebond II glue. I am more confortable with this method than using the chuck. Check out some of my “faceplate bowls!!”

-- William from the oldest town in Texas