2 years ago, I saw a fellow using what I learned is a cup chuck. He was at a craft fair making turning small Christmas tree decorations. His stock was all 2 x 2 Bass and he just used a mallet to pound the stock into the hollow steel cup on the head stock. When the work was finished and parted off, he he extracted the stump of the wood using a knock out rod. I was not then back into turning, and I was quite unfamiliar with technical advances in turning in the 40 years since I was turning. It got me hankering to do some turning so I bought a lathe and started again. But I could find no reference to the kind of tooling he used to fasten the stock to the head stock. Even in catalogs, not on ebay, no where. Then I found a You tube video of a guy turning parts and he seemed to use an identical system. He pounded in the stock with a small hammer and turned without a face plate or tail stock.

This is a video about making music boxes, but the chuck I am talking about is shown starting at 56 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDUUqIVxn5c



Two days ago, I was reading Raffan's book about turning and he described a "cup chuck" for use when several items are made using the same size stock. In fact there is even a picture of a piece of wood just hammered into the morse taper of the head stock and to be turned that way. However, I can find no such chucks for sale, although in the UK, they are offerred by Sealey and in Australia by Hercus Ltd.

https://www.grizzly.com/products/Cup...ce=grizzly.com

http://www.fwhercus.com.au/jrdebay/e...Cup_ChuckA.htm

It would seem that if I was going to turn out several nearly identical items using uniform stock, such a "cup chuck" would save alot of time

Does anyone have experience with such a thing?