Quote Originally Posted by shotwell1234 View Post
Jockeys, if you want, cut the pieces a bit long and slap them on a single screw faceplate. Then you can use the tailstock for the lathe (does a shopsmith have one?) to drill the hole for the brush. Not only will this give you the smoothest hole you've ever drilled, it will be easier because it is FAR more concentric. Now, you can chuck or use any other creative mounting technique in the brush blank hole to part and finish off the back side. Let me know if you have any questions about these techniques and I'll see if I can answer them for you.
that's actually how i wanted to do it, but i couldn't find the faceplate for the shopsmith, so i did it the other way. i'm totally going to do horizontal drilling next time to eliminate the skew.