How To Make A Wood Lathe Chuck

Finish the honey dipper with sanding and finishing just like you did the rest of the turning.

How to make a wood lathe chuck. Hollowing the center requires a Jacobs chuck drill bit and wood thread tap. Rotate the lathe by hand to see the elliptical motion. There are a number of different jaw sizes and styles which bolt to the chuck.

1 First round the cylinder then add a tenon to the tailstock end. To use this center install it in the chuck by gripping it with the jaws. Im not an engineer or a woodworker.

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. Screw the faceplateto the runners and the elliptical chuck is ready to run. Then turn the interior of the bowl.

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This scoop is actually my Vicmark vm120 body with wood jaws mounted to the body. The jaws are made from an 8 by 8 by 12 piece of Baltic birch plywood the good stuff. Making the four jaw chuck.

Wood lathe chucks all have 4 replaceable jaws differing from 3 jaw chucks that are common in metal work. This needs to go in fairly precisely. Also you must bowl tenon to the chuck and sand interior of the bowl.