Thread: Lathe Chuck and accessories

i no one has any of these spare to part with, many recommendations for medium range scroll chucks ?

Originally Posted by delbs

i no one has any of these spare to part with, many recommendations for medium range scroll chucks ?

I actually might still have a Nova Chuck - will have a look for you
Possibly a spur drive also
Tom

Hi Nathan,

This is what I ended up getting. A great deal for an great chuck.

Vicmarc VM100 Chuck Special (timberbits.com)

No luck - I'm sorry.
All I found was a screw chuck to go into a scroll chuck.
Yours if you want it
Tom

Thanks for checking anyway mate

Thinking of this chuck and it comes with a screw included

W370 - WSC-100 Scroll Chuck -100mm | Hare & Forbes Machineryhouse. Have to pick up the adapter and might just get some spur drives off eBay

Cheers
Nathan

Don't forget to sign up for the Mates Rates discount at H&F if you do!

Just make sure that whichever chuck you buy has a good selection of jaws available for it too.

I bought a couple of these ones that come with a bunch of jaws, pretty good value really and nicely made:

Wood Lathe Chuck 3.75" Self Centering Scroll W/5 types of jaws & insert M30x3.5 | eBay

Originally Posted by aarggh

I bought a couple of these ones that come with a bunch of jaws, pretty good value really and nicely made:

Wood Lathe Chuck 3.75" Self Centering Scroll W/5 types of jaws & insert M30x3.5 | eBay

I did sign up for the discount and I'm ok with that price for the adapters and the chuck but I couldn't see if they had any compatible jaws

I did come across that eBay set. It seems ok to try , it's not the same quality as Vicmarc but my turning skills need brushing up so a variety of jaws would help me with that

Then just a couple of spur points and should be up and running

Check these out

Vicmarc VM100 Chuck Special

CWS Store - Vicmarc Chucks & Accessories (cwsonline.com.au)

Economy 125mm Chuck 4 Jaw (vermec.com)

Thanks for these. I have a Vicmarc vm100 and pen jaws and pen saver mandrel in my cart. It's pretty expensive but they seem to have the most versatile range of jaws for me to expand on later

Originally Posted by delbs

I did sign up for the discount and I'm ok with that price for the adapters and the chuck but I couldn't see if they had any compatible jaws

I did come across that eBay set. It seems ok to try , it's not the same quality as Vicmarc but my turning skills need brushing up so a variety of jaws would help me with that

Then just a couple of spur points and should be up and running

Vicmarc and Nova jaws in many cases not intercghangable. The H&F were but not sure with the newer ones, they have a good selection of jaws available.
Check out Trend Timbers also sogn up for mates rates deals. McJings also have a good set of chucks & jaws and spare parts. Gary Pye also have chuxk kits. All sell pen mandrels at reasonable cost.

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Originally Posted by aarggh

I bought a couple of these ones that come with a bunch of jaws, pretty good value really and nicely made:

Wood Lathe Chuck 3.75" Self Centering Scroll W/5 types of jaws & insert M30x3.5 | eBay

Ended up going with this one. From what I could read it seems to be good enough quality and the range of jaws included will help me get started. Bought some spindles and spur points also.

Not fully setup for pen making yet but now can start on all those chisel handles I need to make

I think you'll be pretty happy with that set. Although I'm sure they aren't quite the same quality, to my amateurish eyes and for my use they seem to be as good as the nova's and the vm I have, just a huge amount cheaper.

Early on I needed a deep jaw set for my nova, and just the one set of jaws set me back over $100, so that ebay set is great value in my book.