How To Use A Wood Turning Lathe

The cutting edge above the cylinder.

How to use a wood turning lathe. Step 4 Lay your lathe tools on the tool rest positioned at an angle. Hand turning lathes are often used in schools and colleges see Figure 1. Its so easy that with the recommendations that follow you can be turning in 10 minutes flat.

Place the cutting edge of the tool on the rest keeping clear of the rotating work piece check your grip and slowly begin easing it toward the work piece. This is how you can make a small project from a wood-piece using a wood lathe. Make sure your lathe is set to its lowest RPM.

Once contact is safely made use your right hand to slide the tool backward toward the body away from the lathe until the cutting edge begins to engage the wood. The wood grain is spinning perpendicular right angles to the lathe and requires a bowl gouge for smooth cuts. The wood bowl chuck jaw is turned as one piece when the four-jaw chuck is manufactured ironically on a metal lathe.

Further we explained different terms related to the wood lathe machines. In this article we started first by sharing the safety measures to be taken while working on a wood-lathe. You really only need three things to get into woodturning.

Following are some guidelines to follow when starting any out of round stock. In order to use a wood lathe lock a piece of wood into the head stock and tail stock start the tool at its slowest speed and support the tool with the blad. Therefore be careful when you start.

For bowl turning you will use your bowl gouge. But the block will not be totally round or balanced. Once the jaw ring is complete it is cut into quarters making the four jaws we use on.