How To Make A Wooden Lathe Chuck

Also you must bowl tenon to the chuck and sand interior of the bowl.

How to make a wooden lathe chuck. Next invert the bowl mounting the tenon in your 4-jaw chuck and re-turn the bowls interior. I Have Used 13mm Drill Machine. This scoop is actually my Vicmark vm120 body with wood jaws mounted to the body.

Carefully cutting out the main part on the bandsaw. Once the faceplate is attached to the disks put it on your lathe and turn the disks perfectly round removing as little wood as possible to maximize the size of the chuck. Make the faceplate from ¼- 6mm- thick hardwood plywood carefully rounding its corners.

Glue two pieces of hardwood together to make a blank that will hold the doughnut chuck on a face plate or nova chuck. Then turn the interior of the bowl. 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.

Rotate the lathe by hand to see the elliptical motion. Secure the setup with the tail center and turn the tenon and outside of the bowl concentric. Rotate the bowl by hand and using the tool rest as a reference center the bowl between its two widest points as shown.

This Woodworking Lathe Is Powered By Drill Machine. Im not an engineer or a woodworker. I Hope You Enjoy This Vid.

To test it run the lathe at 500 rpm and mark your first ellipse with a pencil held firmly on the centerline. Mounting Wood on a Lathe with 4 Jaw Lathe Chucks A chuck is a device that screws onto the headstock and is designed to hold a piece of wood by either compression on a tenon or expanding to fill a recess. Cut the corners off using a.