Simple Way Of Making Cole Jaws For My Lathe

all right so know that yeah Chuck I desperately need a set of Cole jaws so I could be turning the bottom foot of a bowl so I'm gonna make it out of this old piece of countertop that I have been saving for years does it now it's gonna do something for this nice plastic laminate so good start [Music] [Music] okay so now I have a perfectly square piece of wood I've drawn from corner to corner so that way I could get the exact center of this so I've taken the I've taken the pin or I've taken the jaws off of the off of my nova to chuck and I've marked the holes where I'm going to need to drill these on because these are going to replace this piece is going to replace these on the lathe and I left it square so that way can still use the table saw to cut in half so that's where I'm at right now so next thing to do is to mark out the raises [Music] all right so now I got to mark a 45-degree angle and then I have to do 22 and 1/2 degrees so if you remember back to elementary school or high school or whenever you took trigonometry geometry you'll know how to mark it out how to get a perfect 45 degree angle and 22 and 1/2 degree angle off of but just by using a compass so here we go [Music] there we go twenty-two and a half degrees homework when I got two rows of 22 and 1/2 degrees coming out so I've got the nine TVs or where the rubber is gonna be the stops for the coal joblessness with a what's gonna go in and out that replaces the jaws on the other one so now I have to mark out just pick one of these and Mark out one inch because I want these things one inch on center after here so but then I can go from there so that'll be next [Music] alright now I'll drill a hole for each one of these lines intersects on the 22 and 1/2 degree angles now I have to drill I have to countersink these so that way these are flush when I put these in on each one of the the dots for this cross so so I'm going to do now using a Forstner bit to countersink so here we go [Music] all right so now now I can drill out all the way through so now that I've got all these countersunk [Music] okay so got all these cutout drilled out the outside drove you still have not cut it here realize that I was gonna use them a table top for that but we guess I'm going to be doing it with a bandsaw so anyway there are all these t-nuts all of these peanuts are gonna be getting put in to every one of these 56 holes for these and I'm gonna do that before I cut that out because it's gonna be easier to pound these into the hole but also I'm gonna be using five-minute epoxy to put that in to put them in there just to make sure they hold tight and there's not going to be any movement and so that they don't pull out either because they're gonna be going down into it it's not gonna be that much you know torque on them but I just don't want them to move so I want to be using epoxy so mix up some epoxy here and start glowing these things in [Music] wrap the mix up too much set up on me dang it alright well it's good thing about a new one mix up a smaller batch this time we don't happen all right smaller batch this time a lot of these to do [Music] all right so I got the whole thing sanded down and they're all in pieces now got a rubber band too so I could keep hold on each one is labeled so that way I know how to line them letting them back up when I put them on the Chuck so the next part of this is all smooth and the next part of this is to actually drill holes through the rubber bumpers which I got here yep these rubber bumpers which are gonna go onto these on each one of these so I can label it but I have to drill an exact hole right through the middle of these and I have a bolt that will be going through into these so that's the next step was to drill hole in these and get them exactly centered so should be able to do it and then we'll put a layer of felt on here and then should be ready to go well I hope this works [Music] all right perfect hole right through the center nice it's exactly what I want that should be perfect for this to fit right through the middle so the bolts that will be going through nice perfect all right so now I got all the holes drilled out this is when you get screwed through but put all these through I'll go down all the way but getting these on here man so take fit perfect fit let's take fits perfect fit that's what I say same way with doing joinery especially dovetails I always want tight fits these should be perfect to hold the face of a bowl right at the rim you should be perfect so next step is to put this on the lathe check these check these pieces on its the next step make sure it all fits because I haven't checked it yet just kind of assuming that my measurements are all correct and perfect it's quite the assumption but my math is correct then you should work out perfectly so you just go all the way in thinking about these bolts too tight or too long yep what you want so these I just want to be finger tight I do not want to use a wrench on these because if you use a wrench on these then as soon as you tighten it down this rubber is gonna squeeze out the rubber wool will bulge out if you tighten these down too much and then that just kind of defeats the purpose of having the having the the cut see the fat part of these stops is on the top and the skinny part is on the bottom so that way gives it a little bit of an angle not too much of an angle but a little bit of one I have to cut those bolts off but these should work up nice you may want to get a screw down bit for this take a walk I'm gonna have to change these out all the time I'll find a bit that's fits the screw gun like you'd go much faster then as soon as I figure out that this works correctly like it should then I'll put some felt on here so that way that the bowl way I'm not digging up the rim of the bowl I want to get any scratches on a bolt so don't put some felt on here or something just something to cool space maybe some strips I don't think I'll cover the whole thing cuz I don't have to cut out the holes for the tea or the peanuts are and I want to do that because I don't know I just don't think that'll be very fun so anyway this is project is almost done I can't wait to try it out yeah definitely gonna have to get a screw down for this just to go faster this is super swell sure about shorts shorter screws here bolts but if I'm longer really good actually alright now I can put these on the way okay so I just put these on here this is on I'm gonna tighten it up tighten this up and see where I'm at here somehow and I don't even know how possible but somehow these got off a little bit but I think when I tighten them up should be flush so there we go yeah that's nice and flush okay it's better no he's on here it should work all right so next step what's up pretty good open these back up here see this replaces the mortise and tenon jaws that are on there so now this bowl I never finished the bottom of it because I needed these and I didn't want to use a chisel when you use lathe so they fit the bowl in here off a little bit tighten that up this just scares the heck out of me because I spent so much time making this bowl so now should be able to put the tool rest up here and finish off the bottom of the bowl yeah secures I think I might turn this on but see see what happens work [Music] absolutely perfect now I can finish off the bottom of the bowl and should be just right and uh I gotta I gotta set a cold jaws this would be nice now I can do do a lot more woodworking now by finishing off bowls [Music] I'll be fine there's a little bit of a hop in I'm gonna have to figure out where that is why it might just be a little adjustment I may not have calibrated correctly [Music] on the outside but I'll figure that out other than that this works great this works really nice

Channel: The Marble Mountain Craftsman

Views: 16,630

Keywords: Wood turning, Cole Jaws, How to, bowl finishing, dizzy bowl, SuperNova Chuck, Homemade, DIY, Lathe chuck, segmented bowl, bowl turning, segmented bowl turning, lathe turning

Id: k1ScXVhvDIQ

Length: 19min 13sec (1153 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 05 2020