How to make a pickup winding faceplate that runs 'true'

[HankMcSpank]

To get it to run perfectly true make the faceplate slightly longer than the shaft.
Bore the 8mm hole in and put a small counterbore at the front, like your perspex one, now glue the faceplate on, allow to set and put the rear shaft of the stepper in the lathe, support the 8mm hole with a revolting centre and take a clean up pass across the faceplate.


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I was enjoying your 'top tip' until I got to the bolded bit - my stepper doesn't have a rear shaft (I'm wishing it had now, as when it's in situ as a pickup winder, a rear shaft would come in useful for general operability)

I did at one stage today spin the stepper as fast as it'll go (about 600RPM) and took a wood chisel to the perspex faceplate surface....the perspex cut like a charm - but obviously the chisel danced about a bit! Now if only I could come up with a way of securing a cutting bit totally perpedicular to the faceplate - I'd not need to piddle about with lathes at all (as it goes, a stanley blade is the perfect width for 'facing' the perspex faceplate - being just slightly longer than the faceplate's radius )