How To Make A Wooden Lathe Chuck

For a 1 x 8 TPI headstock drill a 78 initial hole and tap with a 1 x 8 TPI wood tap.

How to make a wooden lathe chuck. The jaws are made from an 8 by 8 by 12 piece of Baltic birch plywood the good stuff. Cut the corners off using a. Carefully cutting out the main part on the bandsaw.

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. I Hope You Enjoy This Vid.

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. Making the four jaw chuck. Mark the center of the hardwood.

Next invert the bowl mounting the tenon in your 4-jaw chuck and re-turn the bowls interior. Make the faceplate from ¼- 6mm- thick hardwood plywood carefully rounding its corners. We removed it from the lathe and using a beam compass drew 4 concentric circles.

Then bring up the tail stock to mark the true center. When you attach the chuck ensure it is firmly secure. Once you are done setting up your lathe machine attach the chuck.

The workpiece set on the chuck should be appropriately secured by tightening the jaws. A piece of threaded rod will go into each of the four slots. Drill a hole deeper than the length of your headstock threads but do not let it contact the four-jaw chuck.