How Do You Use A Wood Turning Lathe

Once you have unboxed your lathe first of all put in your spur center and your live center and make sure they meet in the middle on center and that is critical if you do spindle turning.

How do you use a wood turning lathe. 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 an important thing to do if you are into spindle turning. Turn the lathe on making sure it is at the lowest speed setting.

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. Out Of Round-Before Turning On The Lathe. In either configuration if the blank does not seat at the base of the screw chuck it can wobble or work loose and potentially go flying.

In this video I show you how to make a vacuum chuck for your lathe. You should also make an effort of reapplying a lubricant each time you turn. Directly screwed onto the faceplace.

And a variety of jam-chucks more sacrificial stock. Glued to a sacrificial piece of wood which is then screwed to the faceplate. In that case you will use the tried- and-true faceplate likely provided with your lathe and attach your turning stock in a variety of ways.

Another important thing to do is add some lubricant on the bed so that is slides smoothly as you do your woodturning. The initial turning on the lathe will be safer smoother and easier on you and your lathe. Make sure your lathe is set to its lowest RPM.

Just as with the four-jaw chuck screw attachment to attach wood to a lathe using the dedicated screw chuck be sure to seat the blank all the way down to the base for a secure attachment. A vacuum system is a great way to hold pieces on the lathe without damaging them. Throughout the entire cutting process the bevel should remain in contact with the wood.