Thread: All Turned Out !

What exactly are you trying to achieve?
To do the final finishing on the base of your turnings or do you want a way to use tinber chucks for the whole operation?

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Les Fortescue

Les,
I just want to be able to finish the base of the objects. For example I want to make bowls with scooped out multi-edged bases and goblets with bases hollowed out up to the center of the piece. that sort of thing.
It's easy enough to turn the top of things on a metal face plate but I don't know
how to turn the other end without glueing it on wooden face plate and damaging it.

Thanks,

Tempest.

Tempest

I take it by your e-mail address that you must be somewhere in the Bendigo - Central Victorian area.

Try going along to a meeting of Woodturners of Bendigo or Ballarat Woodworkers or Maryborough Woodworkers or Maine Woodworkers or etc.etc. a full list of Victorian clubs and their meeting details can be found here: http://www.ubeaut.com.au/viclist.htm

You can use wooden chucks for the application you want but your turning skills need to be extremely good. Your best alternative is to buy a good chuck designed especially for woodturning (not an engineers chuck).

Nova or Vicmark scroll chucks are the best and easiest to get accessories for. Preferance is for Nova.

The wooden chucks you refer too are known as "Jam fit chucks" your turning must be very acurate so as to fit a spidet or the intereal or external edge into the chuck so as it is held very tightly, whilst the base of the bowl or goblet is turned. You must be able to cut cleanly and lightly to remove the timber without throwing the work out of the chuck. Definately not advised for a beginner who has had no lessons.

If you have lessons make sure they are with a real woodturner not the ones that a Bendigo machinery business are doing to sell lathes.

Hope this is of some help to you.
Neil Ellis

Tempest, a good site to check out is this one: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rhaslip/waysof.htm#vacume

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Ian () Robertson
"We do good turns every day"