How To Turn Spindles On A Wood Lathe

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How to turn spindles on a wood lathe. Install the aluminum fingers onto the ends of the wood blocks securing them in place with the 1 10-40 bolts and lock nuts. If you switch from a thick tool like a spindle roughing gouge to a thinner tool like a skew you will need to raise the tool rest. Keep working your way along the spindle removing the corners from a square portion of the blank toward a rounded portion.

The roughing gouge is a very versatile gouge but it must be used. The aluminum fingers must be free to move up and down. When the grain of the turning blank is at right angles to the lathe then you are doing faceplate or bowl turning.

See more ideas about wood turning wood turning projects turn ons. If the finished spindle will retain a square segment youll need to first turn a pommel the transition from square to round. This is referred to as spindle turning and is the type of woodturning that is done to create long ornate table legs and other long wood turnings.

With the spindle and machine set up complete youre ready to cut woodUsing a spindle gouge and holding the chisel approximately parallel to the floor gently probe the tip of the chisel into the spinning spindle. This made easy work of the blankslike sharping a large pencil. The board attached to the Tenon Cutter rest against the bed of the lathe and provides support while cutting the tenons.

Prepare a spindle of appropriate length. Start at one end and remove the corners Photo 10a. They then split that section of the trunk into usable sized billets in a process called riving A froe the edged tool with the wooden handle at right is used to rive wood.

You should cut above center for most lathe tools. Use the square-end tool to turn a ¼-inch groove in the back of the blank leaving a ⅜ outer rim of wood. Set the fingers to just drop through barely touching the.