How To Make A Wooden Lathe Chuck

The workpiece set on the chuck should be appropriately secured by tightening the jaws.

How to make a wooden lathe chuck. Also you must bowl tenon to the chuck and sand interior of the bowl. Im not an engineer or a woodworker. Secure the setup with the tail center and turn the tenon and outside of the bowl concentric.

Then bring up the tail stock to mark the true center. Finish the bowl and remove it from the chuck. Making the four jaw chuck.

I work in an officeI cant teach you something new everydaybusy however if you trust in me you can be the best wood. 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. The standard jaws were used as templates to mark bolt holes.

The jaws are made from an 8 by 8 by 12 piece of Baltic birch plywood the good stuff. Make the faceplate from ¼- 6mm- thick hardwood plywood carefully rounding its corners. 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.

Once you are done setting up your lathe machine attach the chuck. For a 1-14 x 8 TPI headstock drill a 1-18 initial hole and tap with a 1-14 x 8 TPI wood tap. When you attach the chuck ensure it is firmly secure.

This scoop is actually my Vicmark vm120 body with wood jaws mounted to the body. I Hope You Enjoy This Vid. Try spinning the chuck briefly to check on the different angles at each jaw.