Gitface
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Hi All
With the talk about the Clack woodturing chuck in the other thread I thought that I would post a picture of the chuck that I made.
This was inspired by a thread some time ago that showed some old time wooden chucks and my own inturpiation of them.
Steps:
* Mount a block of wood on a face plate, after my experiance with snapping plates I'm going to get a new one and dedicate it to this type of chuck.
* Turn the block round and hollow out the center. I left the walls about 6 to 8 mm thick.
* Using a saw stright down the side to create four jaws. You might want to widen these a little but not too much.
* Next drill a hole at the bottom of each cut so that as you compress the jaws they can move at the bottom and don't snap.
* Nip to your local car parts shop and as for a Jubilee clip slightly bigger than the width of your wood.
All in the one shown cost me a lump of old fence post (free) and 94p for the clip.
When cutting a tennon for this make it a slight dovetail to hold the work better.
And forgot the mention, watch your hand when it's spining or you'll have the skin off yout knuckle 8-[
On my new version 2 one I'll trim down the clip and turn it round so as to avoid knuckle scraps.
Mark................
With the talk about the Clack woodturing chuck in the other thread I thought that I would post a picture of the chuck that I made.
This was inspired by a thread some time ago that showed some old time wooden chucks and my own inturpiation of them.
Steps:
* Mount a block of wood on a face plate, after my experiance with snapping plates I'm going to get a new one and dedicate it to this type of chuck.
* Turn the block round and hollow out the center. I left the walls about 6 to 8 mm thick.
* Using a saw stright down the side to create four jaws. You might want to widen these a little but not too much.
* Next drill a hole at the bottom of each cut so that as you compress the jaws they can move at the bottom and don't snap.
* Nip to your local car parts shop and as for a Jubilee clip slightly bigger than the width of your wood.
All in the one shown cost me a lump of old fence post (free) and 94p for the clip.
When cutting a tennon for this make it a slight dovetail to hold the work better.
And forgot the mention, watch your hand when it's spining or you'll have the skin off yout knuckle 8-[
On my new version 2 one I'll trim down the clip and turn it round so as to avoid knuckle scraps.
Mark................
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