Until I see what he does, maybe we should all look like we just woke up. I do tons of stuff but I see this guy do projects and feel like a complete novice.
Here in Atibaia cudade interiorana of the State of São Paulo in Brazil, I do not lose a video of you. You're the best of them all. This one I copied and mounted my wood lathe, Thanks for sharing your videos, A hug.
mathias sos un genio la verdad no se me ocurre nada que no puedas hacer no tenes límites con la madera..estoy totalmente agradecido por todo lo que enseñas en tu canal..muchísimas gracias
Mr. Wandel: I went from binge-watching garbage on Netflix to binge-watching your videos. I am so impressed with your work. It's so refreshing to actually watch something from which I can learn practical lessons -- and not just about woodworking, but about problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking. Keep up the excellent work; I look forward to many more hours of enlightenment! Cheers from Michigan!
That is a nice chuck but the simplicity is Guinness. The way you made the face plate and chuck on the same shaft is neat. This lathe has a different vibe than your other shop tools though. Nothing bad about it but its built in a different fashion than we have seen in your other builds. Thank you for passing along your tallents.
One little tip for you. Use curd soap as a lubricant in your bearings, oil lets the wood swell up and it starts to rott eventually. Curd soap is a better lubricant aswell.
+Matthias Wandel Wow, you have no idea. Just give the curd soap a try and you will crawl back to me on your knees for beeing so ignorant. Carpenters use that stuff to lubricate wooden drawers and stuff like that for hundreds of years. And oil WILL mess up your lathe, vegetable oil goes bad after a while and mineral oil does nasty things to wood and plywood too.
hey matthias, I don't want to badger you about this but I think you can produce some really fine work while still using safe and proper equipment if you bought a couple of turning tools. Frankly, all you need in my opinion is a bowl gouge and a parting tool. You can buy these tools for stupid cheap from a lot of places (penn state industries, amazon, eBay) Cool chuck! Im excited to see how it works on that bowl! Take it easy, Pete
Wow!! Great video..Thanks so much for sharing..These videos are awesome!! I have no idea what your making most of the time but honestly, who cares. Lol. It's so much fun watching you make all this really cool stuff. I think my favorite part of all your videos is watching you make your own little tools to get the job done. Amazing!! I really do enjoy that most.. Thanks again for sharing & keep the videos coming.. :))
I've never been jealous of someone's ability to make things from scratch until I found your channel. I wish I had the intelligence (and patience) you do! I love you videos! Keep them up!
Why not use locknuts or double nut it? I think the nylon lock nuts would work very well here to ensure the fingers don't fly off. Thanks for the videos Matthias!
+Matthias Wandel You do amaze me.I would be a little afraid of vibration working a nut loose.The nylock is going to work your glued bolts more though.....
I understand this.I also understand the pain of a face full of wood.I think the honest reason is that they would probably work the thread stock out of the chuck.This man amazes me but i think he is bat shit crazy trying this.lol
Brilliant idea as far as design is concerned. Congratulations. I would suggest two thin gauge steel discs screwed on either side, shaped as required, plus a central steel bush with four threads to take the jaw adjusting screws and a hole for the locking pin would make this brilliant design much safer.
I've been keeping up with your channel for a couple of months, watched every video. I'm into wood turning myself so when I saw you were making a "series" on a wooden lathe I was so excited. I've always wondered if it was possible to make a jaw chuck out of wood, now you've proven it. Now, you have to show me you can make a drill press.
I purchased the plans yesterday, and WOW are they nice. I am so looking forward to this build . Only problem is I don't read metric well. That maybe something on your plans that could be added on later.
avalonbear, get a cheap calculator and store 25.4 in the memory. Divide millimetres by 25.4 to get inches. Fractions of inches you'll have to figure out yourself, or get decimal and get used to metricity :)
Matthias You could always add a lock ring around the threaded rods, bolts and jaws. Cut a ring from 1/2" plywood that covers the bolts, cut dovetail pins on the inside of the ring. Then cut blind tails into the chuck, equidistant between the jaws . Slide the ring on from the back once the stock is locked in place, then secure with a couple of wood screws through the pins and blind part of the tail.
I love it! Way to think outside of the box. You amaze me often. I just watched all four lathe videos and am all set to make my own. In fact, I need the lathe to make the parts for the marble machine that I just purchased. Your videos now are much better than they were a couple of years ago. Good job!
Matthias, what about a locknut, washer and a light-duty spring to keep the chuck jaws pressed to the center or outside of the chuck (depending on where you would mount the jaw itself in the assembly) ? would reduce risk of it not retaining the parts.
It's funny to hear you say that you were procrastinating on doing something - watching your videos for so long and it's never once seemed like a task was intimidating enough to make you procrastinate haha
You can take a large ring clamp and strap it over the edge of that chuck and tighten it down to prevent any bolts flying out in case one wanted to slip.
hello my friend matthias wandel I'm an admirer of your projects I live in Brazil and I try to copy your work because I think it's very interesting that it's a shame that I do not speak your language and your video is in English + anyway I do not stop sharing hugs
I did a somewhat similar setup at one point using the stock face plate that came with my lathe and built wooden slides out of scrap red oak for the clamps (I figured the hard wood would be strong enough to hold up with less material, and it was), and used machine screws and washers to screw them down to the face plate. To keep it safe I simply used two nuts on each screw to lock it down. It worked for the piece I needed it to, which was a wand I made out of 1" square stock, but I find the diameter to be too small for bowls given that it is limited by the size of the smallest set of screw holes in the stock face plate. I like this design in that it allows for more use of the available surface area. I think I might make one to use on my lathe, but since I have an existing set up I'll just drill holes to line up with my existing face plate and countersink them for longer machine screws, using the double nut technique again for safety. I'll probably again use either hard wood or possibly metal for my jaws just so I can get a strong piece with less material; I think if you cut a section of pipe to size with an angle grinder, that would give a consistent round to the jaws with about a sixth of the thickness to the material (and thus that much more diameter to work with). I could of course buy a lathe chuck, but they're a bit pricey and my current lathe isn't exactly a high-end machine that I'll want to make that kind of investment on.
Gotta admit I had my doubts on whether a DIY lathe chuck would be any good. Every design I toyed around with in my head had shrapnel potential. I have an ancient Dunlap 9" lathe with a solid bar instead of a threaded axle. I've got a spur bit, but nobody sells a 3-jaw or 4-jaw chuck. I'll probably try your method. Thanks.
Mr Maeehias Wandel, I really love your work. Speed and accuracy, you work with are really the best. I am too carpenter by birth but I spend my life as nuclear scientist in India. I really appreciate your skill. I would like to work with wood as craft man. Thanks you lot.
To prevent your chuck grips from potentially flying out - just wrap a piece of small tyre inner tube tightly around the chuck. ;) Just make sure it's easily put on and offable when you need to access the chuck bolts.
+Kris A (londongamer) Or you could use an oversized hose clamp. That way you could tighten it down as much as necessary and easily remove it when it was time to release the nuts.
+StutleyConstable There's a potential flaw in your idea though,... (ok, mine has too, but for a different reason). Your idea has the single screw-down part, it would potentially throw the chuck off balance while it was spinning, causing vibration. Though TWO hose clamps might prevent it, in fairness. Yet there'd still be screws which may (or may not), be susceptible to failure under the stresses of high RPM.
Kris A I think we're seeing something like 300 to 500 RPM. The screw in a hose clamp is unlikely to fail at that speed, especially since the stress would be lateral to the shank of the screw. I also think a single hose clamp would be fine on a machine made primarily from wood, however, I agree that using two hose clamps would balance things out and reduce the risk of vibration.
I don't think there's too much chance of the bolts coming out. If anything they might be prone to slowly unscrewing themselves slowly over time, so you'd just need to check them every so often. I think that as long as you're turning smallish stock with this, it should be fine.
You might want to use hex nylon insert lock nuts to help prevent parts from flying off. Also, a threaded insert for the bolt to screw into with permanent lock tight to hold it in place.
I never understood how one could center a piece exactly on these chuck where every one of the four adjusmetn escrews is operated indiviually. I guess it doesn't matter when you start witht a completely raw piece of wood but if the piece is alreadz round and you need to machine it a bit further, how do you center it without a milllion trial and error adjustments? but I'm always impressed at what you come up with.
thanks I'm probably a bit anal about this since I see my self as so unskilled, that I feel I have to rely on precise machinery to align, square and center things for me. cheers
Cliff Hartle I have a few. I do not have a metal lathe though, so I do not use one to center work there. There's two kinds, the push rod, and the lever arm.
Hmmmm...have you considered updateing the shaft to one that would be used with a Nova G3 ? The nice thing about that concept is that if you updated to a beefier lathe...the Nova would be easily reuseable
hey I'm 13 and am starting carpentry and I only have hand tools I was wondering if u can do a video of u using only manual tools to make a small coffee table
Renaissance wordworks, think woodworks, Tom Fidgen, Paul Sellers, wood and shop, they're are many more, but these will give u a place to start to learn.
Neat build! To make the usage a bit safer, how about buying a long drill bit and drill the holes for the threaded rod straight through? Thats for the jaws 1+3 and 2+4, they have to be a bit off from each other. Then the force from clamping will be through a solid piece of rod for each pair=> the risk of getting hurt decreases and clamping force and confidence increases! This chuck model must be 3 times easier to build compared to the "Longworth chuck" + adjustable for 0 run out! //H
This is Hilarious! Right at the end of a long detailed build you come out with "I'm having second thoughts..." ;-) ;-) ;-) I enjoyed watching you work through the challenges of this build, Matthias. Thanks.
I think roller skate bearings (608's) would be pretty accessible (assuming that is the reason you gave yourself limitations on this build). I build the head and tailstock of my first lathe using them, spent all of $2 at a garage sale for the donor roller blades.
I was wondering if you were going to make one of these! Very interesting concept. You could also use lock nuts to help prevent those nuts from backing out while turning. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to seeing the bowl video :-D
If you are worried about the nuts flying off just make a removable metal guard to cover the chuck whilst in use. NB. if the nuts come loose you're likely to realise it a long time before they "fly off" (Ouut), the job will get a "mite" eccentric first.
Hi Matthias. You might want to look at Ignus company for the free sample package. Your woodworking might be a bit easier. Always enjoy your videos. Take care. Marc
I wished you lived close. I have an antique verticle Bridgeport milling machine that you could use to be able to get precisely in the middle of those holes. It would just be much easier to do the tight tolerances for drilling or milling keyways and that mind of work that you do when building the Kool shop tools that you show us. This antique is bigger than a table top model but not as big as a modern vertical Bridgeport. Tho you could probably buy a mill that is close to home cheaper than shipping this one.
I know that you already have a lathe and very rarely saw a use for it, but has building one caused you to want to find uses for it? In any case, I'm really enjoying this series of videos, keep up the great work!
+Jason Patterson Yes, I do keep looking for uses. That's the problem with lathes. You have to find uses for it, because it doesn't have many uses on it's own.
I love how he always looks like he just woke up. Makes me feel better about my day.
Cool design Matt.
Until I see what he does, maybe we should all look like we just woke up. I do tons of stuff but I see this guy do projects and feel like a complete novice.
Your build projects are a never ending surprise package for me
What's up Wayne?
Here in Atibaia cudade interiorana of the State of São Paulo in Brazil, I do not lose a video of you. You're the best of them all. This one I copied and mounted my wood lathe, Thanks for sharing your videos, A hug.
mathias sos un genio la verdad no se me ocurre nada que no puedas hacer no tenes límites con la madera..estoy totalmente agradecido por todo lo que enseñas en tu canal..muchísimas gracias
Matthias you truly have a magical mind, it must never rest
Mechanical. Not magical. When he can teleport his physical body we can go further
Mr. Wandel: I went from binge-watching garbage on Netflix to binge-watching your videos. I am so impressed with your work. It's so refreshing to actually watch something from which I can learn practical lessons -- and not just about woodworking, but about problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking. Keep up the excellent work; I look forward to many more hours of enlightenment! Cheers from Michigan!
This guy is the Bob Ross of woodworking. I have no idea how the guy does it but it looks hella tight
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Nice job sir ! 👍😉... Said from an old mechanic.
And I did appreciate your way to save plywood !
somebody give this man a medal. Your wood working skills is A+
Actually in Canada the grade system is in percent so 100%
you know what I mean! :)
+the boss chef we use letter grades...
+Saient do you kiss your mom and wife with that mouth?
Vergel Velasquez Yes.
This has been a great engineering series. It's amazing to me what you've made.
Typical Matthias, pure genius as usual! Figure things out as you proceed & change gears in order to make it work. Gotta love it.............Steve
The minimalist in me loves how you build just what's needed and nothing more.
I have really enjoyed your lathe build videos. Good job Matthias.
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That is a nice chuck but the simplicity is Guinness. The way you made the face plate and chuck on the same shaft is neat. This lathe has a different vibe than your other shop tools though. Nothing bad about it but its built in a different fashion than we have seen in your other builds. Thank you for passing along your tallents.
Ah the teaser at the end. Great job on the build.
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One little tip for you. Use curd soap as a lubricant in your bearings, oil lets the wood swell up and it starts to rott eventually. Curd soap is a better lubricant aswell.
+Cofay Mc und Cs:go That's some really bad advice. And oil prevents rot.
+Cofay Mc und Cs:go BTFO
+Matthias Wandel Wow,
you have no idea. Just give the curd soap a try and you will crawl back
to me on your knees for beeing so ignorant. Carpenters use that stuff
to lubricate wooden drawers and stuff like that for hundreds of years.
And oil WILL mess up your lathe, vegetable oil goes bad after a while
and mineral oil does nasty things to wood and plywood too.
Cofay Mc und Cs:go master mathhias knows what he's doing
+Cofay Mc und Cs:go you're teaching a fish how to swim.
Seriously Matthias, you're the biggest inspiration I have for being creative. Thank you for another great video!
I wont do those things you do ever, but it is a work of art to see you work on your artistic skills.
hey matthias, I don't want to badger you about this but I think you can produce some really fine work while still using safe and proper equipment if you bought a couple of turning tools. Frankly, all you need in my opinion is a bowl gouge and a parting tool. You can buy these tools for stupid cheap from a lot of places (penn state industries, amazon, eBay)
Cool chuck! Im excited to see how it works on that bowl!
Take it easy,
Pete
Wow!! Great video..Thanks so much for sharing..These videos are awesome!! I have no idea what your making most of the time but honestly, who cares. Lol. It's so much fun watching you make all this really cool stuff. I think my favorite part of all your videos is watching you make your own little tools to get the job done. Amazing!! I really do enjoy that most.. Thanks again for sharing & keep the videos coming.. :))
I've never been jealous of someone's ability to make things from scratch until I found your channel. I wish I had the intelligence (and patience) you do! I love you videos! Keep them up!
Matthias super urađena majstorija ,svaka čast bez komentara bravo.
Why not use locknuts or double nut it? I think the nylon lock nuts would work very well here to ensure the fingers don't fly off. Thanks for the videos Matthias!
+David Bierdeman That would be safer, yes. Though more annoying to adjust.
+Matthias Wandel You do amaze me.I would be a little afraid of vibration working a nut loose.The nylock is going to work your glued bolts more though.....
+David Bierdeman Nylock nuts wear out and are a pain to put on and adjust. They're really only meant to be used once or twice.
I understand this.I also understand the pain of a face full of wood.I think the honest reason is that they would probably work the thread stock out of the chuck.This man amazes me but i think he is bat shit crazy trying this.lol
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*Man I tell you this guy got SOME SKILLZ*
Awesome! That's a beautiful chuck, can't wait to watch it in action on that bowl!
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Does your mind ever rest? I am always amazed at what the human brain can do! ...and you sir are amazing!
Brilliant idea as far as design is concerned. Congratulations. I would suggest two thin gauge steel discs screwed on either side, shaped as required, plus a central steel bush with four threads to take the jaw adjusting screws and a hole for the locking pin would make this brilliant design much safer.
I am really enjoying this series of videos. You make this seem so much less intimidating than I thought it would be. Thank you so much
I'm not at all surprised that it worked.
Nicely done!
Wow! Best wood home made chuck I seen anybody make so far. Real good stuff man.
I've been keeping up with your channel for a couple of months, watched every video. I'm into wood turning myself so when I saw you were making a "series" on a wooden lathe I was so excited. I've always wondered if it was possible to make a jaw chuck out of wood, now you've proven it. Now, you have to show me you can make a drill press.
You make it look so easy.
I now have a new respect for what can be done with wood.
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Cały cykl filmów o budowie tokarki jest super. To pokazuje, że jak się chce, to można wszystko :D
I'm not surprised it worked... you succeed much more often than not. I always enjoy your videos... keep them coming.
I like and appreciate all of your videos. I am mainly a woodturner, and so this latest series on the lathe is particularly awesome! Great work.
I purchased the plans yesterday, and WOW are they nice. I am so looking forward to this build . Only problem is I don't read metric well. That maybe something on your plans that could be added on later.
+avalonbear61 See section in plans "why the plans are in metric". Fractional units are not not practical for machine designs.
avalonbear, get a cheap calculator and store 25.4 in the memory.
Divide millimetres by 25.4 to get inches.
Fractions of inches you'll have to figure out yourself, or get decimal and get used to metricity :)
Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze :D
You are a great teacher,sir.
Wonderful video, as usual, Matthias. You make my day any time you upload a video!
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+Eugeniusz Budzich A figure of speech; it means that my day is made better because I watched a top quality video.
Matthias You could always add a lock ring around the threaded rods, bolts and jaws.
Cut a ring from 1/2" plywood that covers the bolts, cut dovetail pins on the inside of the ring. Then cut blind tails into the chuck, equidistant between the jaws . Slide the ring on from the back once the stock is locked in place, then secure with a couple of wood screws through the pins and blind part of the tail.
You're getting addicted to this machine
I love it! Way to think outside of the box. You amaze me often. I just watched all four lathe videos and am all set to make my own. In fact, I need the lathe to make the parts for the marble machine that I just purchased. Your videos now are much better than they were a couple of years ago. Good job!
Matthias, what about a locknut, washer and a light-duty spring to keep the chuck jaws pressed to the center or outside of the chuck (depending on where you would mount the jaw itself in the assembly) ? would reduce risk of it not retaining the parts.
Have enjoyed this entire build. Looking forward to more.
It's funny to hear you say that you were procrastinating on doing something - watching your videos for so long and it's never once seemed like a task was intimidating enough to make you procrastinate haha
8:55........"and I'm actually surprised that it worked" I wasn't surprised. Nice job.
You can take a large ring clamp and strap it over the edge of that chuck and tighten it down to prevent any bolts flying out in case one wanted to slip.
Fantastic. Use lock nuts with a plastic top or a spring washer to decrease the risk of them loosening while turning.
You are best handyman in world.
hello my friend matthias wandel I'm an admirer of your projects I live in Brazil and I try to copy your work because I think it's very interesting that it's a shame that I do not speak your language and your video is in English + anyway I do not stop sharing hugs
I don't know why you had doubt, you made it right , nice
I did a somewhat similar setup at one point using the stock face plate that came with my lathe and built wooden slides out of scrap red oak for the clamps (I figured the hard wood would be strong enough to hold up with less material, and it was), and used machine screws and washers to screw them down to the face plate. To keep it safe I simply used two nuts on each screw to lock it down. It worked for the piece I needed it to, which was a wand I made out of 1" square stock, but I find the diameter to be too small for bowls given that it is limited by the size of the smallest set of screw holes in the stock face plate.
I like this design in that it allows for more use of the available surface area. I think I might make one to use on my lathe, but since I have an existing set up I'll just drill holes to line up with my existing face plate and countersink them for longer machine screws, using the double nut technique again for safety. I'll probably again use either hard wood or possibly metal for my jaws just so I can get a strong piece with less material; I think if you cut a section of pipe to size with an angle grinder, that would give a consistent round to the jaws with about a sixth of the thickness to the material (and thus that much more diameter to work with).
I could of course buy a lathe chuck, but they're a bit pricey and my current lathe isn't exactly a high-end machine that I'll want to make that kind of investment on.
As always Mathias, a passioned genius.
Ah! The long awaited, much coveted, 4 jaw chuck. Nice!
You might consider locktite to prevent the nuts 🔩 from coming loose. Really great 👍 vid!
Another impressive engineering design. Well done sir!
Gotta admit I had my doubts on whether a DIY lathe chuck would be any good. Every design I toyed around with in my head had shrapnel potential.
I have an ancient Dunlap 9" lathe with a solid bar instead of a threaded axle. I've got a spur bit, but nobody sells a 3-jaw or 4-jaw chuck. I'll probably try your method. Thanks.
Mr Maeehias Wandel, I really love your work. Speed and accuracy, you work with are really the best. I am too carpenter by birth but I spend my life as nuclear scientist in India. I really appreciate your skill. I would like to work with wood as craft man. Thanks you lot.
You are number one man, amazing job
To prevent your chuck grips from potentially flying out - just wrap a piece of small tyre inner tube tightly around the chuck. ;) Just make sure it's easily put on and offable when you need to access the chuck bolts.
+Kris A (londongamer)
That's a great idea. You could maybe even make small holes in the inner tube where the bolts are for tightening.
+Kris A (londongamer) Or you could use an oversized hose clamp. That way you could tighten it down as much as necessary and easily remove it when it was time to release the nuts.
+StutleyConstable a hose clamp is not perfectly balanced. youll throw a wrench in things for sure
+StutleyConstable There's a potential flaw in your idea though,... (ok, mine has too, but for a different reason). Your idea has the single screw-down part, it would potentially throw the chuck off balance while it was spinning, causing vibration. Though TWO hose clamps might prevent it, in fairness. Yet there'd still be screws which may (or may not), be susceptible to failure under the stresses of high RPM.
Kris A I think we're seeing something like 300 to 500 RPM. The screw in a hose clamp is unlikely to fail at that speed, especially since the stress would be lateral to the shank of the screw. I also think a single hose clamp would be fine on a machine made primarily from wood, however, I agree that using two hose clamps would balance things out and reduce the risk of vibration.
matthias you are a genius
Matthias, trees must be proud their wood feeds such wonderful inventions!
Made the lathe but found that the interchangeable headstocks cumbersome. So made the headstock holder changeable, much easier
Good point. I actually have two headstock holders too - first one used wood screws, the second one anchor bolts.
I don't think there's too much chance of the bolts coming out. If anything they might be prone to slowly unscrewing themselves slowly over time, so you'd just need to check them every so often. I think that as long as you're turning smallish stock with this, it should be fine.
but the real question is: how many wood chunks would a wooden wood Chuck Chuck?
I love watching your videos on Friday mornings. Thanks!
Very nice. my father watched this as well and I'm planning on doing this have lots of plywood scraps. thanks for the great work you do
Nice work, You should use a large, heavy duty rubberband or inner tubing around the chuck to keep any loose bolt to flight across the room!
You might want to use hex nylon insert lock nuts to help prevent parts from flying off. Also, a threaded insert for the bolt to screw into with permanent lock tight to hold it in place.
Reminds me of a Gingery lathe. Nice work!
Really in joy your videos.
You always know how to blow my mind! Never once thought about making my own 4 jaw chuck!
Great chuck design. Easy enough
I never understood how one could center a piece exactly on these chuck where every one of the four adjusmetn escrews is operated indiviually.
I guess it doesn't matter when you start witht a completely raw piece of wood but if the piece is alreadz round and you need to machine it a bit further, how do you center it without a milllion trial and error adjustments?
but I'm always impressed at what you come up with.
+Yves Baggi I think machinists do it all the time. I think it just involves a dial micrometer.
thanks
I'm probably a bit anal about this since I see my self as so unskilled, that I feel I have to rely on precise machinery to align, square and center things for me.
cheers
+Cliff Hartle a dial indicator.
Paul Frederick yea you're right I
Cliff Hartle
I have a few. I do not have a metal lathe though, so I do not use one to center work there. There's two kinds, the push rod, and the lever arm.
this whole series of videos is mesmerizing
Always fun watching you figure out problem in a project. Great video. I would use a milk jug to make washers for the places wood is rubbing wood.
Hmmmm...have you considered updateing the shaft to one that would be used with a Nova G3 ? The nice thing about that concept is that if you updated to a beefier lathe...the Nova would be easily reuseable
Awesome, tnx for sharing Mr. Wandel.
You might be able to put a hose clamp around the circumference of the chuck so that if one of the jaws does come loose it'll be stopped by the clamp ?
hey I'm 13 and am starting carpentry and I only have hand tools I was wondering if u can do a video of u using only manual tools to make a small coffee table
+Liam Williams Go watch Paul Sellers.
+Matthias Wandel thx
+Liam Williams, Also check out Tom Fidgen
+Scott Verge thx
Renaissance wordworks, think woodworks, Tom Fidgen, Paul Sellers, wood and shop, they're are many more, but these will give u a place to start to learn.
Matthias!, fantastic you proyect ,greeting from Valdivia city Chile...
Well put the bearings are normal! A smart guy like that, and you do stuff...
you could put a large hose clamp around the chuck to act as a safeguard to prevent the fingers from flying off if they or the bolt fails
Neat build!
To make the usage a bit safer, how about buying a long drill bit and drill the holes for the threaded rod straight through?
Thats for the jaws 1+3 and 2+4, they have to be a bit off from each other. Then the force from clamping will be through a solid piece of rod for each pair=> the risk of getting hurt decreases and clamping force and confidence increases!
This chuck model must be 3 times easier to build compared to the "Longworth chuck" + adjustable for 0 run out!
//H
This is simultaneously completely absurd, and 100% awesome. Love it.
As always informative, creative and entertaining. What more could we ask for? Looking forward to your next project.
Awesome video gave me several ideas thanks
huh! Very good idea for the chuck! simple but seems it would work rather well.
Great one! I really enjoy this.
Why don't you put the spacers on the inside? (on either side of the pulley)
+brunoble I suppose that would be another alternative.
This is Hilarious! Right at the end of a long detailed build you come out with "I'm having second thoughts..." ;-) ;-) ;-)
I enjoyed watching you work through the challenges of this build, Matthias. Thanks.
+Wordsnwood (Art Mulder) lots of ideas seem good, but often we need to actually see things in front of us to accurately access their true merit.
I think roller skate bearings (608's) would be pretty accessible (assuming that is the reason you gave yourself limitations on this build). I build the head and tailstock of my first lathe using them, spent all of $2 at a garage sale for the donor roller blades.
+Matthew S Those only have a 8 mm hole. The shaft I'm using here is 16 mm.
Matthias Wandel Good point. Great build so far, you addressed quite a few issues that I ran into.
I was wondering if you were going to make one of these! Very interesting concept. You could also use lock nuts to help prevent those nuts from backing out while turning. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to seeing the bowl video :-D
Cool, please make a pepper grinder. Try coating the jaws in silicone or put small rubber bands over them for grip and longevity.
Matthias - I'm Awed by your imagination, inventiveness and skills.
This was posted on my birthday, and this is going to be useful to me, so thank you for the birthday present.
If you are worried about the nuts flying off just make a removable metal guard to cover the chuck whilst in use.
NB. if the nuts come loose you're likely to realise it a long time before they "fly off" (Ouut), the job will get a "mite" eccentric first.
Hi Matthias. You might want to look at Ignus company for the free sample package. Your woodworking might be a bit easier. Always enjoy your videos. Take care. Marc
I wished you lived close. I have an antique verticle Bridgeport milling machine that you could use to be able to get precisely in the middle of those holes. It would just be much easier to do the tight tolerances for drilling or milling keyways and that mind of work that you do when building the Kool shop tools that you show us. This antique is bigger than a table top model but not as big as a modern vertical Bridgeport. Tho you could probably buy a mill that is close to home cheaper than shipping this one.
I know that you already have a lathe and very rarely saw a use for it, but has building one caused you to want to find uses for it? In any case, I'm really enjoying this series of videos, keep up the great work!
+Jason Patterson Yes, I do keep looking for uses. That's the problem with lathes. You have to find uses for it, because it doesn't have many uses on it's own.
Matthias Wandel you have made every tool yourself, exept a drillpress, couldn't that be a challenge/project??