How To Make A Jam Chuck For A Wood Lathe

Making the four jaw chuck I used my BigPrint program to print a 11 template of the main part of the chuck and cut it out of Baltic birch plywood.

How to make a jam chuck for a wood lathe. Screw chucks with larger parallel threaded screws require you to drill a pilot hole first but give a superior grip. Then you make another piece of wood with a hole in the middle. Im not an engineer or a woodworker.

You start with a large piece of wood on a faceplate. I work in an officeI cant teach you something new everydaybusy however if you trust in me you can be the best wood. Screwchucks with a pointed small screw enable quick mounting of small blocks of wood - you can just screw the block on while the screwchuck is on the lathe.

Sep 10 2018 - Explore Eds board Jam chucks on Pinterest. The bowl is placed inside the donut so the bottom protrudes through the hole. Rotate the bowl by hand and using the tool rest as a reference center the bowl between its two widest points as shown.

All you need is a faceplate. Carefully cutting out the main part on the bandsaw. These are handy for holding such projects as wooden.

Secure the setup with the tail center and turn the tenon and outside of the bowl concentric. The size of the jaws completely dictates the size of the tenon used on the wood bowl. The simplest home-made chuck is a waste block of wood glued to the bowl blank and used for holding.

Every time you use this jam chuck make sure the mount on the scroll chuck is straight true lined up with your mark and firmly against the shoulder all the way. A donut chuck is similar to a jam chuck. Aligning the bowl is easier if you turn a series of lines in the bottom piece of wood.