Make Your Own Wood Lathe Chuck

A piece of threaded rod will go into each of the four slots.

Make your own wood lathe chuck. To Build Your Own Wood Lathe in 30 Minutes You Need. This needs to go in fairly precisely. The simplest home-made chuck is a waste block of wood glued to the bowl blank and used for holding.

My usual method of finishing a bowl is to reverse chuck it between a live centre and a suitably shaped piece of wood with router mat and paper tissue to protect the finish acting as a friction drive. Hole through the center of the discs using a Jacobs chuck in your tailstock. When the caulk is dry it is time to mount it to the lathe and finish it up.

Put the jig on the lathe and bore a 516-dia. I managed to build this lathe in about a week with not much more than a cordless drill a drill press a jigsaw and assorted hand tools. I made a drill powered minipen lathe using roller blade wheel bearings and a couple of scrap pieces of plywoodFor futher information check out my insructab.

Making the four jaw chuck. This avoids leaving screw or chuck marks on the piece or having to increase the size of the blank to achieve the same result. Videos you watch may be added to the TV.

As I tend to turn about six or eight bowls in a row and then let the finish dry to later finish the bottoms I decided I needed or at least wanted a quick way to do the bottoms. I turn away as much of the spigot or recess as I can and finish the last bit where the live centre was located by hand off the lathe. Make Your Own Wood Turning Screw Chuck A little touch of wood turning history that is still very juseful today a home made screw chuck can be just the thing for a lot of facepalte turning.

If youve got questions about the lathe ask it in the comment section. Add Tip Ask Question Comment Download Step 2. The only limit to the potential of home-made chucks is your imagination.