fryovanni- my post was directed at the way I do it and I explained it in the first post. The freehand method described in the above posts is not safe and wont work at all. The bad advice comment towarad all things drillpress/router related tipped off my attitude on this.
Tearout is not so much of an issue because you can move the cross slide vise in any direction to eliminate it. I think a video is in order for this one. Im heading to the garage in a few min and ill set this up and take a few vids. The reason im so head strong about the idea is beacause i have been using that method for a lot of things over the last 10 years and have never had any broken bits, lost chucks....The odd messed up workpiece due to my own planning mishaps (but not the fault of the tool). I have used it as a lathe to make knobs and wheels before too. The reason why I have the opinion I have....my experience with it.