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13 January 2009The topic for this meeting was a talk by current chairman Roger Gladdish on the various ways of holding the work in a lathe. Roger's talk was illustrated with various power point slides together with a wide selection of hardware brought in by Roger and other members.
Roger commenced his talk by describing the evolution of the lathe from its earliest beginnings with the pole lathe, through the treadle lathe finally reaching the modern lathe that we are all familiar with. Roger went on to describe the various ways in which work items can be held between centres. This ranged through various sorts of live and dead centres tohome made centres for specific tasks (i.e. ones with foam pads for finishing the bottoms of bowls). The next part of the talk covered various sorts (and sizes) of face plates and specific advice on how to use them safely. Next Roger went on to describe jam, screw, hot glue and pin chucks. Roger then gave a potted history (together with examples in several cases) of the development of conventional chucks which lead to the four jaw chuck which is the work horse of most turners these days. Also covered were the vast array of various jaws that can be used for the many situations that turners may encounter.
Lastly Roger touched on more specialist chucks such as:-
He then gave us specific advice on holding various types of objects someone may wish to turn. To view the slides Roger used in his presentation please click on the following links. |
