Finger Top on a Lathe

Step 2 Setup

Start by screwing your large piece of wood into the faceplate then mount it on your lathe. Then you want to roughly true up the piece and face it off (make it flat on the end). No pictures of this because I found you only have to do this once, I just hatchet of the scrap wood and face off the hotglue.

After mounting the scrap wood, cut the piece youll be making the top out of about an inch longer than the top. You want the cuts to be as sqaure as possible as it will make truing the piece easier.

Now just put a big blob of hotglue on the bottom of piece and stick it on the scrap wood. Then go around edge filling in any gaps.