How To Make A Wood Lathe Chuck

Drill a hole equal in diameter to the root of the screw and slightly deeper than its length centered on the top.

How to make a wood lathe chuck. There are a number of different jaw sizes and styles which bolt to the chuck. Finish the honey dipper with sanding and finishing just like you did the rest of the turning. It should be a tight squeaky movement.

A piece of threaded rod will go into each of the four slots. Wood lathe chucks all have 4 replaceable jaws differing from 3 jaw chucks that are common in metal work. Again use your non-tool hand to catch the turning as it comes off the lathe.

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. This needs to go in fairly precisely. This scoop is actually my Vicmark vm120 body with wood jaws mounted to the body.

Most hardwoods work fine for making a custom vacuum chuck. Now its time to mount your chuck to the lathe after mounting and removing the bowl from the lathe. Im not an engineer or a woodworker.

Mount the woodwork you want to. Screw the faceplateto the runners and the elliptical chuck is ready to run. Mount your chuck to lathe.

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. The jaws are made from an 8 by 8 by 12 piece of Baltic birch plywood the good stuff. Rotate the lathe by hand to see the elliptical motion.