How To Make Lathe Chuck

Adjust as needed small cuts.

How to make lathe chuck. Making the four jaw chuck. The faceplate will be permanent so you need to get one specifically for the Longworth chuck. Mill out the steps on the top side of the jaws.

Of course if you have a CNC metal lathe the whole. One for the 3 jaw and one for the 4 jaw. Its pretty straight forward even to do it from plate just takes a while.

Use light cuts at end about 0010. Then bring up the tail stock to mark the true center. A primer on making good newspaper glue joints can be found in one of David Springetts prior AW.

Now its time to mount your chuck to the lathe after mounting and removing the bowl from the lathe. Backplate has been doing its job of holding the chuck on the lathe for 3 or 4 years without complaint. As soon as you have the hole done and back of the plate machined to dimensions you mount the backplate on the spindle face it flat and cut the chuck register.

Then turn the interior of the bowl. How to make a 4 jaw lathe chuck using plywoodmichaelpaleyAd cogitandum et agendum homo natus estA chuck is a specialized type of clamp. This needs to go in fairly precisely.

If you used a blank to test now make a matching set of four jaws. A piece of threaded rod will go into each of the four slots. In this video I will show you how this lathe chuck works and how well it works in a drill.