How To Make A Wooden Lathe Chuck

Once the faceplate is attached to the disks put it on your lathe and turn the disks perfectly round removing as little wood as possible to maximize the size of the chuck.

How to make a wooden lathe chuck. Drill a hole deeper than the length of your headstock threads but do not let it contact the four-jaw chuck. I Hope You Enjoy This Vid. This needs to go in fairly precisely.

I Have Used 13mm Drill Machine. Mount the woodwork you want to work on. Glue two pieces of hardwood together to make a blank that will hold the doughnut chuck on a face plate or nova chuck.

Rotate the bowl by hand and using the tool rest as a reference center the bowl between its two widest points as shown. We removed it from the lathe and using a beam compass drew 4 concentric circles. Hello FriendsToday I Make A Woodworking Lathe.

Then turn the interior of the bowl. Wood lathe chucks all have 4 replaceable jaws differing from 3 jaw chucks that are common in metal work. Next invert the bowl mounting the tenon in your 4-jaw chuck and re-turn the bowls interior.

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. We drew one about. Now its time to mount your chuck to the lathe after mounting and removing the bowl from the lathe.

Carefully cutting out the main part on the bandsaw. Screw the faceplateto the runners and the elliptical chuck is ready to run. Then bring up the tail stock to mark the true center.