How To Make Lathe Chuck

With the new tray on top of the headstock I needed.

How to make lathe chuck. Mill out a bevel and tip on the leading edge of the jaws. Its pretty straight forward even to do it from plate just takes a while. Backplate has been doing its job of holding the chuck on the lathe for 3 or 4 years without complaint.

Mount and turn the cam blank on a softwood faceplate using a newspaper glue joint that you can split when done. As soon as you have the hole done and back of the plate machined to dimensions you mount the backplate on the spindle face it flat and cut the chuck register. Then turn the interior of the bowl.

Mill out the steps on the top side of the jaws. Mount your chuck to lathe. Screw the studs into the threaded holes and mount the chuck on the lathe.

It is used to hold a. Now with the bar in the jig tighten the chuck and it should not move. In this video I will show you how this lathe chuck works and how well it works in a drill.

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. If you used a blank to test now make a matching set of four jaws. How to make New Lathe chuck keys.

This needs to go in fairly precisely. Make sure the edgeis 90 tothe face and mark clear centerlines. 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.