Make a set of jaws for your chuck
to turn off the bottoms of bowls.
Page 1 - the jaws.
"Bottoms up bowls, they will still look good."
| As I tend to turn about six or eight bowls in a row and then let the finish dry to later finish the bottoms, I decided I needed, or at least wanted, a quick way to do the bottoms. One Way makes a great set of large jaws for my One Way chuck, but the price is beyond me. So I made one. To start with I took a piece of 3/4" plywood about 14" on a side and drew as large a circle as I could on it. |
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| A little geometry and it was divided into 4 quadrants. |
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| A little more geometry and each quadrant was divided into thirds, complete with an easily corrected error. |
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| Starting from the center. the trisectors were marked each inch for holes to hold the bowl hold-downs, beginning with the 3 inch mark. |
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| With one of the jaws carefully lined up, holes are marked for drilling. |
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| Then to the bandsaw and the circle and jaws are cut ready for drilling. |
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| After drilling 1/4" holes for the hold-downs and 8mm holes for the jaws, there are four jaws ready to go. |
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| They are mounted to the chuck slides with 8mm machine screws. |
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| And then placed on the bowl lathe. Next for the hold downs. |
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If you make one please let me know how it turned out.
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