So far my plan is comming together. My Home made air clamps work like a champ. They supply over 3,000 lbs of clamping pressure each. The boards turn out nice and tight. I got lucky and purchased a surface sander at a fle market for only $200. It does a supper job to plane down to glue up 4 boards. My wood finnaly arrived all 190 peices, all I have to do is glue and glue some more. I made 1 shaft over the weekend in 8 continuous passes in about 50 minutes. It turned out awsome. I made a pencil mark circle all the way around the circumference of the shaft at 1 inch intervals. I measured that point and wrote them down. Every week I am going to compare my findings. For now I am going to get them all glued up. I am having so much fun that I have forgotten my rear chuck problem, at least for a week or two anyways. I just wanted to share my progress with you fellows, that all.
