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Howdy. I just got my old shopsmith mark v working this week, after a few years of waiting it's turn in the project lists. I turned my first wood, an old deck rail. It was great!
It came with a set of ~six chisels. Prob the original set from 1960. They're steel so I expect to have to learn how to sharpen them or go buy carbide. But now I'm wondering what tools I should get for future use. I've seen these bent/curved chisels for separating things such as bangles or rings; but I don't know if that's what I want. Or even what they're called.
And in order to do something like bowls, I'm going to need a chuck.
It's a fairly non standard spindle, from what I've read. 5/8" with no taper and no threads. I see entire chuck kits on shopsmith.com with more items than I recognize or likely will use. Do I need to buy something like that (Nova G3 kit) or should I start simpler.
I hope there's another Mark V turner here that can tell me what they did for a chuck.

It came with a set of ~six chisels. Prob the original set from 1960. They're steel so I expect to have to learn how to sharpen them or go buy carbide. But now I'm wondering what tools I should get for future use. I've seen these bent/curved chisels for separating things such as bangles or rings; but I don't know if that's what I want. Or even what they're called.
And in order to do something like bowls, I'm going to need a chuck.
It's a fairly non standard spindle, from what I've read. 5/8" with no taper and no threads. I see entire chuck kits on shopsmith.com with more items than I recognize or likely will use. Do I need to buy something like that (Nova G3 kit) or should I start simpler.
I hope there's another Mark V turner here that can tell me what they did for a chuck.