How To Make A Wood Lathe Chuck

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.

How to make a wood lathe chuck. Hollowing the center requires a Jacobs chuck drill bit and wood thread tap. Now its time to mount your chuck to the lathe after mounting and removing the bowl from the lathe. Ad Find Deals on Products in Power Tools on Amazon.

I work in an officeI cant teach you something new everydaybusy however if you trust in me you can be the best wood. Finish the bowl and remove it from the chuck. Also you must bowl tenon to the chuck and sand interior of the bowl.

Make the faceplate from ¼- 6mm- thick hardwood plywood carefully rounding its corners. 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. Making the four jaw chuck.

Then turn the interior of the bowl. To use this center install it in the chuck by gripping it with the jaws. Once you are done setting up your lathe machine attach the chuck.

This scoop is actually my Vicmark vm120 body with wood jaws mounted to the body. Im not an engineer or a woodworker. Wood lathe chucks all have 4 replaceable jaws differing from 3 jaw chucks that are common in metal work.

Mount your chuck to lathe. For mounting side-grain bowl blanks many chucks come with a screw center. To test it run the lathe at 500 rpm and mark your first ellipse with a pencil held firmly on the centerline.