How To Make A Wood Lathe With A Drill Press

About 5 minutes into turning the dead center began to squeal.

How to make a wood lathe with a drill press. Using a drill press and my angle grinder I turn down a decorative piece by hand. Insert first the nut and then the wood drive nut in the bolt. Of course you need to know what type of JT is on the end of your ram and unfortunately unlike a morse taper a jacobs taper is not really good at being removed and reattached all the time.

If youre going to use a Lathe attachment all you need to do is to install the provided tools into your Drill Press. Take the wood drive-in nut and ply or cut the pointed pins. Create a Dead Center.

Using the hacksaw cut the head of the bolt. Insert a double thread screw and thread one of the wooden knobs made to the lathe bed. Make a similar but small box as the mount for the drill.

Much of this wood lathe is built using scrap plywood and he even made wood gears for this project. Then screw two long pieces of wood to both sides of the plywood. I used a grinder and a file to make the end of a bolt rounded and smooth this would be my dead center.

Then drill a hole that would snugly fit your bearing of about 14 inches deep. This system will help us to adjust the distance depending on the piece we are going to work. The largest bolt I was going to tighten to the slot in my drill press table to act as a tool rest.

Cut 3cm at the bottom of the tailstock and drill the center. Also drill a 16 inches clearance hole wider than your shaft width. One thing that might work is to find an adapter that will fit onto the jacobs taper on the end of your drill press ram and allow you to attach a 4 jaw chuck.