How To Make A Jam Chuck For A Wood Lathe

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How to make a jam chuck for a wood lathe. 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. Secure the setup with the tail center and turn the tenon and outside of the bowl concentric. Go to your local building supply store and find a cheap plunger mine was 3.

See more ideas about wood turning projects wood turning wood lathe. The two pieces are bolted together with long bolts. Works great and is super cheap.

Screw chucks with larger parallel threaded screws require you to drill a pilot hole first but give a superior grip. 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. Next invert the bowl mounting the tenon in your 4-jaw chuck and re-turn the bowls interior.

The wood bowl chuck jaw is turned as one piece when the four-jaw chuck is manufactured ironically on a metal lathe. A donut chuck is similar to a jam chuck. Above Sorby Patriot chuck with 2in spigot jaws.

A Jam Chuck is an essential tool used by wood bowl turners to reverse remove and shape the tenon or foot of a bowlLearn how to make a Jam Chuck in this vi. This avoids leaving screw or chuck marks on the piece or having to increase the size of the blank to achieve the same result. You start with a large piece of wood on a faceplate.

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. This video is a step by step process of making a jam chuck for a wood lathe. Aligning the bowl is easier if you turn a series of lines in the bottom piece of wood.