Table of Contents
Fixtures and Chucks for Woodturners
Chapter 1 Drive Centers and Live Centers
What holds a spindle in place?
How to find the center of a spindle
Project: Turn an oval tool handle
How to seat a drive center
Truing a spindle blank
Truing a blank for a hollow form
Hollow forms from punky wood
Scroll chucks and spindles
How to remove a completed spindle from the lathe
Friction drive for spindle-turning practice
Chapter 2 Faceplates and Screw Centers
Faceplates and bowl blanks
Project: Make your own faceplate
Screw chucks
Project: A shopmade screw chuck
Making a faceplate extension
Chapter 3 Scroll Chucks
Anatomy of a scroll chuck
Choosing a tenon diameter
Expanding the jaws into a recess
Two ways to prepare a bowl blank for chucking
Rechucking a piece in the same position
Using a scroll chuck as a jam chuck
Project: Make a reference plate
Chapter 4 Handy Shopmade Chucks
Waste blocks and glue blocks
Project: Turn a plate or platter
How to attach a tenon to a disk
A screw chuck for beads and buttons
A screw chuck for knobs
How to make a backing plate
Attaching the workpiece to a backing plate
How to turn a large ring
Chapter 5 Jam Chucks
The concept
How to center the foot
Jam chucking against a flat surface
Custom inserts for flat-plate jam chucks
Jam chucking without the tailstock
Internal jam chucks
How to finish the foot of a hollow form
How to true up a badly warped bowl blank
How to make a compression (sandwich) chuck
Cup centers
Project: Jam-chuck fixtures for the live center
Chapter 6 Collets and Mandrels
Collet chucks
Project: Make your own collet chuck
Project: Make a PVC collet chuck
Use a Jacobs chuck as a collet chuck
Mandrels
A mandrel variation: The pin chuck
Bead mandrel
Chapter 7 Cole Jaws, Doughnut Chucks, and Longworth Chucks
Cole jaws
Doughnut chuck
Project: Make a doughnut chuck
Doughnut chuck setup
How to use Cole jaws with a doughnut chuck
The Longworth chuck
Project: Make your own Longworth Chuck
Chapter 8 Vacuum and Vacuum Systems
Atmospheric pressure and vacuum
Force produced by a vacuum chuck
The best source of vacuum
Designing a vacuum system
How to assemble the system
The anatomy of shopmade couplers
Couplers for the Powermatic
Couplers for the Jet mini
Sealing the coupler bearing
Chapter 9 Vacuum Chucks
Materials for vacuum chucks
How to mount a vacuum chuck on a faceplate
Vacuum chucks with a threaded hub
A gallery of vacuum chucks
Centering the workpiece on a vacuum chuck
Chapter 10 Steady Rests
Vibration, bending, and flexing
Steadies: From large to small
Project: A steady with a circular frame
Project: A steady with vertical posts
Project: A bowl steady
Project: A string steady
Project: A tailstock-mounted string steady
Project: A tailstock-mounted clothespin steady
Chapter 11 Turning Projects
Project: Make an endgrain box with a lid
Project: Make a suspended bowl with a lid
Project: Make a globe-type tree ornament
Project: Turn a ball
Project: Make a holder for candles or confetti lights
Project: Turn a natural-edge bowl
Chapter 12 Assembled Pieces
How to attach a foot to a bowl
How to add a decorative rim to a bowl
9 ways to make and join stackable elements
Two ways to turn a hollow vessel
Project: A vessel in two parts
Project: A vessel hollowed through the bottom
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