How To Make A Wood Lathe With A Drill Press

One thing that might work is to find an adapter that will fit onto the jacobs taper on the end of your drill press ram and allow you to attach a 4 jaw chuck.

How to make a wood lathe with a drill press. Using the hacksaw cut the head of the bolt. Cut 3cm at the bottom of the tailstock and drill the center. A jig to use the drill press as a lathe.

Insert the drive-in nut in the chuck and tighten it. If youre going to use a Lathe attachment all you need to do is to install the provided tools into your Drill Press. Then drill a hole that would snugly fit your bearing of about 14 inches deep.

Attach a screw center at the chuck of your Drill Press. Using a drill press and my angle grinder I turn down a decorative piece by hand. This wood lathe is made from plywood wood screws drill sander and glue.

If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device. Also drill a 16 inches clearance hole wider than your shaft width. I secured the pointed bolt into the center or the drill press table and it was going to act as a dead center for the bottom of the wood to spin on.

This is by no means accurate as far as machining is concerned but it is h. Easiest tutorial ever on how to convert your drill press into a lathe. Put it in a vise and with the file make four points.

Create a Dead Center. Make a similar but small box as the mount for the drill. Once your lathe is up and running you can start wood turning immediately and begin making.