Axminster Wood plate jaws

everybody we're back here in the skill center and Axminster today I'm going to be looking at work holding on the lathe and in particular how we remove the sacrificial foot from our bowl if you're making a decorative Bowl you don't want the the foot of the bowl to get in the way of the design that you're making so what I've done is I've used a sacrificial step here just purely to hold that piece while we create the shape inside and outside and then sand polished but now I need to remove that foot so we're gonna reverse it we're gonna hold this bowl now on the rim now most of you probably be aware of things like button jaws the button jaws are pieces of a linear like this with your eight buttons and those eight buttons then hold the rim of the bowl whilst you take that foot away but what I'd like to focus on today our set jewel is called wood plate jaws wood plate jaws are probably my favorite simply because the size of the recess is down to you you can create whatever size recess that you want simply by making a self wooden jaws to go on to our wood plate jaws here now what I'm gonna do we can all go through the process of how to set these up and actually make it cuts and then finish our Bowl off okay so we're ready to set all the plate jaws up we have our wood plate draw itself and I've already set this up onto a mounting jaws just by screwing through and centering them by pinching the the chuck up together we've got our four quadrants of plywood here now it's entirely up to you you can cut a discount and then divide that quadrant up or and do what I've done and literally just save timber you can just do a strip of ply and then cut your quadrants out from that now all we have left to do here is attach our wood plate jaws now that's fairly simply done and we don't have to be over accurate that's the first thing to not worry about we're going to make sure that the side face of our plate jaw is aligned with the side face of the quadrant then just put some marks with a brad or just to keep it nice and accurate and then slightly large ones or you can drill at this point just to a little a little pilot drill would be probably better and you probably noticed already that this is a single sheet of ply now one thing you need to consider if you're using a single you know I'm only using a single sheet here purely because the demonstration if you want to double up like I've done on this one then a good PVA would be fine just join them together give them plenty time to dry and give you a little bit more room to turn but also it gives you a bit more room away from the screws who are about to screw through here so that's set up now if I just put that draw plate back and when you use a decent gage of screw this is a 4.5 here so what's their round about an 8 so once I put the first one in just check to make sure that there's nothing's crept out a little bit and then you carry on and do all the rest so there we go that's the last screw in there that one other little tip before we move to the lathe we know that our jaws are all numbered there's a sequence that the jaws have to go into so we've got mounted your numbered we've actually got the plate drawn numbered but it's on this side that we is now covered up what we do is number this top plate so this is number two jaw it would put a number two there and just to avoid any confusion and another number two on there and why not one on the bank as well we'll do that to all of them so it's got number number one and number three there we are now we can move to the lathe and car recesses okay so I've mounted the jaws onto the chuck now what we need to do we're going to cut the recess in we're going to measure the bowl but to do that we don't want to close these jaws up and then cut the recess otherwise you're gonna have no grip there at all so we're just going to hold a small piece of dowel I'm in the center of our jaws pinch them up nice and tight and make sure nothing's vibrating there mustn't be loose when you start cutting the recess so that's nice and tight next thing bring the tool rest up nice and close late speed to zero turn the machine on and then we'll get a slow speed go now I'm going here at the moment I'm going at about 600 revs get nice and slow we're going to measure the bowl and then I've already set these up a half the measurement and then we can start cutting that's going to give us a life-size - to grip that fold if we go through that process now so that's the guy answer but we know we've got a little bit of closure there so we'll take a couple of cuts so that's the diameter correct just going to take some of that waste material around in the teardown now so we can get involved in there but now we're just going to make a slightly dovetailed surface hold it a little bit more secure so now we can undo the truck take that piece of dowel out that should be able to hold the bowl ready for our sanding there we go so that's how do they nice and securely now all that's left to do now is finish the turning take the foot away sand polish so there we are that's that foot stepping away I have left a little decorative ring on the bottom but you could take it right off round it over do whatever you want really so another jewel there that's going to help solve some of your work holding needs and like all of our jaws is made right here in Axminster in Devon

Channel: Axminster Tools

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Keywords: axminster, woodturning, colwin way, turning, wood plate jaws, chuck jaws, chucks, lathe holding, lathe jaws, woodplate jaws, button jaws, woodturning jaws, wood turning jaws

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Length: 6min 27sec (387 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2015