Spent the last few hot evening in the cool basement machining an action fixture. Copied partly form a well known design. Instead of holding the fixture in a four jaw chuck I mounted it directly to a 4“ threaded backing plate, keeps parts closer to head stock and easy on and off. Fixture started as a 4”x8” solid round stock. Still a little ways to go did not think to start a thread on it until now.... more photos to follow