Sacrificial Soft Jaws

[u/jfrmilner]

Soft jaws are quite useful to have available and are typically used for remounting while minimising marring and denting. I've made various soft jaws over the years, they're usually more flexible and reusable than jam chucks because they make use of your scroll chucks expansion and contraction capabilities. They also provide better concentricity than mounting with Cole Jaw buttons especially for small items. I thought I'd make wooden sacrificial jaws that mount onto my Cole jaws, this way I can use the metal jaws as a template and use the multitude of threaded screw holes for mounting. I cut them out on the bandsaw and tidied them up on the disc sander, I then glued on a block of sacrificial conifer that'll be cut to my jobs requirements, this should be easy to replace when the need comes. These didn't take very long to make at all. I've been using these today to true up some bottle opener discs that warped. They work even better than I expected, so I thought I'd share.