#2 Morse Taper Flute drive adapter, snug 3/4" fit, lets flute slip a smidgen if there is a bad 'catch' on the lathe.
Flute shaping is finished, sanding down to 400 grit is finished, ready for about 8 coats of hand rubbed lacquer!
left: after 1st coat....right: after about eight coats.
I lock my lathe with it's Index Pin, just to have a good hold on the flute while I'm laying on the lacquer.
Paste wax and buffing out come next.
A new method of rounding I have used for the last three or four flutes is a router jig mounted on
tracks parallel to my lathe bed, one in front, one in back. I happened to have tracks from under a
rolling file cabinet but steel or aluminum angle could be used.
The first 2 pics show the router 'carrier', just plywood and a band clamp that slides in and out on a
plywood sub-base to which the steel rollers are mounted.
Pic 3 shows the rounding has started, I always cut left to right. Pic 4 is shot of my tracks.
Pic 5 is another shot of the tracks and pic 6 is after a good bit of 'rough' rounding.
Pic 6 is the SAC and mouth hole before rounding with a hand-held gouge. Pic 7-After gouge work.
Pic 9 is of a little hand-work with spoke shave to smooth everything real good.
Pic 10 is the finished flute. Pics on other page of finish process.