Scroll Chucks and Jaws for Woodturning by Sam Angelo

Oh greetings once again to my shop this is Sam in Wyoming and today's topic I'm going to cover chucks and Chuck jaws if you're in the market for selecting a Chuck or getting a new set of jaws I'm going to cover some of the important considerations you need to think about when spending your money so the scope of this video is going to be rather narrow I'm going to talk about Chuck's and jaws so let's take a look well you are looking at a few Chuck's I've collected over the years and you may think this is a little mind-boggling well it might be no one should go out and spend lots and lots of money on chucks and jaws until you figure out what you're going to turn so let's take a look at some of the guidelines for selecting a check depends on what you're going to turn are you turning finials and bottle stoppers or 20-inch bowls and hollow forms now most everybody I know including myself started out with this kind of a Chuck this is a small knowbut chuck this one with two inch jaws or 50 millimeter jaws now I have two of them one is for an inch and a quarter spindle lathe and the other one is for my one inch well it is maybe a bit of a luxury but sometimes I do classes in my shop and every month I've got a club meeting here in my shop so changing jaws is just not an option for me it's too inconvenient and I have four legs in my shop with one inch spindles and inch-and-a-quarter spindles so there's a good option for you let's put this one aside and let's take a look at this large Chuck this is a Vic Mark 120 with similar jaws let me tilt this thing up for you here we go now believe it or not I measure the inside of these jaws and they're just a little bit narrower than these jaws like an eighth of an inch this one's an eighth of its bigger on the compression fixing they look a lot bigger because they're heftier this way now I'm certain than anybody that started out with this configuration of a Chuck and the two inch jaws turn to bowl I would not recommend turning bowl much more than six or eight inches and a little bit shallow with these jaws it's not a great cross grain Chuck in my opinion I believe this configuration of the two inch jaws is more for spindles like a little box now this setup right here the Vic mark 120 with the similar jaws although they are a lot beefier as you can tell I would turn a 1012 inch Bowl with this set and not worry event if you have a nice fixing and a good tenant and a spigot you're in good shape now just a side note this is a very large Chuck for these jaws however I do have other sets of Jaws that I use these are some five into five and a half inch jaws that I use for larger bowls that I can put on here and I do that occasionally I'm not always turning a very large bowl so I'm more inclined to use this set up than the large jaws so through the process of elimination let's just take a look at some of the different jaws you have available I love this set of jaws now this particular set is a nova chuck made by technic tool and these jaws are Bowl jaws now my friend Roger Durst at craft supplies informs me that they no longer care technic tool or the no line but the record series is very similar and the jaws are pretty much all the same so if you want want to look some of these up you can find those in the craft supplies catalog and if you have any questions I'm sure Roger Durst is the guy to ask he is really knowledgeable about lathes and Chuck's and that sort of thing so if I'm really really turning something I could turn a hollow form with these jaws maybe not the largest hollow form but these are really secure these are just awesome and look how hefty they are so I love these they're really nice so if we're getting into a little bit larger bowl and something that's a little bit deeper this is a really good set now again these are made by technic tool these are the deep gripper jaws and I really like these for hollow forms if I want to make a really really thick tenon and stick it way down inside there that's a really secure fixing and it's also got the dovetail profile on the very end of those are the top of those jaws these are three inch jaws measured by the compression opening right here and it's very nice to have a series of jaws that go from very small to very large and if you misjudge a tenon or spigot you have a set of jaws it will fit that is that a luxury or a necessity well I'll leave that to you to decide another consideration is are you doing a compression fitting or an expansion fitting and I like this because it's a little bit bigger than the two inch jaws it's good for bowls maybe up to 12 14 inches and you can also do platters maybe smaller platters with an expansion fixing on these and that's very nice now one more consideration I kind of touched on earlier is the size of the spindle if you have a lathe with a one-inch spindle then you need to identify that when you're buying a Chuck and usually it'll have that as a drop-down menu on the particular Chuck you're buying this Chuck has one and a quarter inch threads on it and this one is one-inch so that's an important aspect and usually you'll get an insert and like I said you like to specify that when you buy the Chuck now another consideration is horsepower if I try to put this set of jaws with this Chuck on my small Delta lathe or my jet laid I may have a problem this has considerable weight to it this is a Vic mark 120 Chuck with a cup jaws and this is really nice this will take pretty much any Bowl my 20 inch car Matic is going to handle and it's also got a very deep recess in here you can either do a very deep spigot on that for security you can form a dovetail on this half-inch up here this is a dovetail recess there and you can have the corresponding dovetail on your spigot that you're looking at a very tall closed form that's in the works it's been drying for a while and I have the remnants of the tenon right here now I think I probably need to put that back on blaze sometime and do a little work so these jaws would be perfect for that all I need to do is form a tenon higher up right here it's going to sit in that and this is not going to be in the way there's enough depth there to handle that so that's a great use of these jaws for some sort of a forum like that now one of the difficult questions to answer when you're new woodturner is simply what am I going to turn you've seen a few people turn pens or little bowls or whatever what are you going to turn and that's going to determine what kind of Chuck you're going to need and what kind of jaws you're going to need and as I said before most the people start out with a small Chuck and two inch jaws and I think this is an important decision but it's something going to use in your shop so I would start out with that if you start out with something a little bit different like this set right here well that limits you quite a bit to what you're going to turn so and a lot of times it gets back to money how much money do you have and how much do you want to spend and dedicate to your shop accessories beyond your lathe can be very expensive all that can equal a lot more than your lathe cost when you began to turn now something else to think about is simply what are you going to be doing in a year or five years what are your future plans for turning are you going to be turning the same thing you're turning right now maybe not so that's an important consideration for planning for the future as far as buying that Chuck or that set of jaws now one of the things that happens in my shop is I do classes occasionally and like I said every month we have our club meeting here so I may have four lathes going with different chucks and sometimes we need nothing but 2 inch jaws on a chuck and I've got a couple and I've got Club members in my club here that also can bring those so let's take a look at maybe the last series of Chuck jaws that I really like and they're pretty cool to have okay now you're looking at some of my really favorite jaw sets and let's start with this one right here this is a nova chuck that's a super nova chuck and this is what I use for my finials or very small items maybe bottle stoppers or something like that and this will tighten down to I believe three-eighths of an inch so that goes fairly narrow right there and that's important that's a important option to have in your shop when you're turning small items now this set right here it's on a Vic mark 120 Chuck body and these are long nose jaws now these are really nice if you are turning maybe a box or anything that you want to get behind and you have a little bit more room from here to your chuck and from here to your headstock so they're really powerful they're on a very large Chuck and they do a great job and you may simply want to put a spindle in there like that and tighten that down and you can turn whatever you want to turn without even having a spigot or a tenon on there so those are handy a lot of times I will take these to a demonstration when I'm demonstrating because they're very secure I'm not going to have a problem with something coming off that because they're really hefty now this is a smaller option these are some shark jaws this particular set of jaws is on a Vic mark 100 which is their smaller chuck body and while I'm on that topic ordinarily you'll buy a chuck body and the jaw set separately now when you start out with this little chuck in the 2 inch jaws they're going to come as a set and what I would recommend from then on just simply buy the Chuck body and the jaws separately so these are the shark jaws and other options you can simply put that spindle all the way in there and tighten that down and you don't really need to make a tenon so those are the shark jaws this is another set that's very similar these are the long nose jaws well there you have it a lot to think about and a lot to consider many questions is near a new Turner it's really difficult ask a friend go to a club meeting and figure out what you need now I know what you may be thinking I may have a bit of duplication when I got maybe two or three sets of Jaws like this that are very similar well there are times when I'm chasing threads and I'm using one Chuck on one leg and I'm making the corresponding insert on another lathe and I need a very similar set of jaws to do that it's a luxury I'll admit but it's very nice don't start out with all this go very slowly and carefully and if you have any questions ever contact me i'm the wyoming woodturner thank you very much for watching

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Length: 14min 16sec (856 seconds)

Published: Wed May 18 2016