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Turned Jewelry box ( distraction from stripping lathe )

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micktoon:
 Thanks Don and David , glad you liked it.
    I have made another smaller trinket type box out of Yew in the form of a mushroom for my girlfriends birthday, its ended a bit smaller than I intended but both bits of wood started off larger then various faults in the wood meant the size had to be a bit smaller than the planned size. It will still hold a few rings or whatever, as it was a gift I put a lottery ticket in it....... the draw is tonight so if the numbers come up, she might either...... leave me .......or I might be buying some new machines  :lol:

This is the finished box, its about three inches high and the lid about three inches diameter roughly. There is no dye or stain on it , the colours and patterns you see are in the wood.







A quick guide to how it was made, I did not take as many photos as got engrossed in making the box.

This is the blank the lid was made from, a nice looking bit of wood but allsorts of knots grain running different ways etc.



It was trued up between centres and a spigot put on one end so it could be firmly held in the chuck, then turned slowly to shape.





I just kept gently turning away until splits and loose bits were gone and I had the shape of the mushroom head. As you can see most of the wood is gone and now shavings on the floor.



The lid was sealed and waxed, the spigot that the chuck is holding it by will locate the lid to the box. This shot shows the first coat of wax so still a few lines where it is polished , these will be lightly cut back and a second light coat of wax applied.



The box blank is now trued up and a spigot turned so the chuck can grip it. Because the lid ended up smaller than I had wanted I now had to make the box to match the lid.



Once the box is roughly to size its turned around and held via the spigot then the main hole to make it a box is bored out with a saw tooth bit.



The hole is bored and the box turned thinner and the bottom and sides of the hole cleaned up with scrapers.



The box is then turned to shape, the lid is checked for fit and the box is altered until the lid fits correctly, the slim cut you can see near the chuck end is where the box will be parted off once its all sanded , sealed and waxed , once parted off the underside is sealed and waxed and thats it job done  :D....... well apart from sweeping up lots of shavings. It turned out nice , pardon the pun  :lol:


 Cheers Mick.

raynerd:
Mick, nice one on both the mushroom and the birthday box. I know jack about wood turning, I have a dumb question but I`m going to ask anyway. I understand the idea of the little recess so that the pieces can be flipped around and held again but how does the chuck hold on that recess? It just seems quite a shallow recess for the chuck to grip on so I`m curious to see how the lathe chuck works - i.e what the jaws look like, they look pretty funky just looking at the pictures of the bits that are showing!

Nice one Mick, that is something that I could do that my wife would actually appreciate!

doubleboost:
Hi
Mick
Just read this post
I am well impressed  :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
John

micktoon:
  Hi John and Chris , thanks for the nice comments :thumbup:. I have watched plenty of posts you have both done in the past and enjoyed plus learnt from  them  :bow: :bow: :clap: :clap: so nice to know that I am repaying the compliment  :thumbup:

 As you say Chris , you can make things that your wife will like quite quickly so earning 'time off' so you can get on with your own projects   :D ........ The landrover project should be earing you some good 'Brownie points' mind.......... well until you have to build another shed to keep it in that is  :lol:

   I have took a few photos of the chuck today, its basically a four jaw self centering scroll chuck similar to metal lathe one really , even the jaws are the same except they have removable jaw extensions that allen bolt to their top surface, these additions come in various sizes so you can hold different sized stock. The actual ends of the jaws have an internal and external dovetail so you can either expand the jaws out and hold into a hollowed out recess in the work or tighten the jaws inwards onto a spigot sticking out of the work. With it being wood there is a certain give so the jaws sort of bite into the wood and with sharp tools it only takes a small recess to grip the item strongly enough to turn it as the forces much be much less than metal turning. Because you are holding the tool and can feel through it , you sort of know if you are pushing your luck or if things are starting to come loose.

This is the general view of the jaws, you can see the outer rim has the internal and external dovetail profile. The counter bore you can see in the jaw extension is the one of the points that fix the add on section to the main jaw, the other one is inside the cone part so can not be seen in the shot.




This is another view of the dovetail profile.




This is a blank with the stick out spigot , its only say 3mm or 1/4 inch and holds fine.



Another thing that is used is a metal face plate ring as in this photo, it is screwed to the blank and has in internal dovetail so the chuck jaws expand into this is more secure but you have to be removing the area where the screws had been if you want to leave no holes. These are good for better grip if the initial blank is odd shaped and way out of balance to start with, the extra safe secure attachment can be used to get the work round and balanced before moving on to it being held by the jaws direct into the wood. Both the chucks and rings come in various sizes depending on what size things you want to make.



  The other thing I would say is there are many different types and styles of wood turning chucks , These 'engineering type' as the woodturners call them seem to be easy to use so are popular. Hope this has answered your questions Chris.

 Cheers Mick.

Rob.Wilson:
Cracking wood turning Mick  :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:


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Motor mounts are coming along slowly   :palm: 

I have a spare lathe chuck that i was planning to mod the jaws  into a wood chuck for my Myford wood lathe ,,, mmmmmmmm one day  :lol:


Rob

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