Collet chuck basics

[Golem Pens]

I'm making the jump from a wood lathe to a metal lathe - got a South Bend 9C coming this weekend - and I'm planning ahead to the tooling I need to buy. Making 3 piece fountain pens.

I'm used to using a Beall-style ER32 collect chuck on my wood lathe. Looks like I can get an adapter and chuck for using the same collets with the SB9. Is that normal procedure, or do folks usually just run 3 and 4 jaw chucks? Is there another workholding method I should look at instead?

(Also speccing out a quick change tool post and corresponding indexable carbide cutters for first purchases).

Thanks!

 

[rixstix]

I use my full set (32ndths) of ER32 collets almost exclusively & HSS tooling 75% of the time.

 

[Golem Pens]

Thanks Rick, I'll likely be putting that on the list then.

Planning for carbide instead of HSS mostly because I'm not set up for grinding yet.

 

[Dieseldoc]

I run ER332 on MT#3 collet , two chucks one 3 and 4 jaw set-centering and 6 inch independently adjustable and reversible. use 3/8 and 1/2 indexable holder with carbide inserts.