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Messing around with some Cherry, red heart, and some wet oak I grabbed from the backyard. The green stuff is taking a Pentacryl bath! I bought a live center with a cup from Woodcraft and slid it through a hole in the drill press table and viola! Using a countersink in the chuck to hold the top. I want a lathe but can’t afford one since the wife totalled our SUV the other day on ice.This will do for the meantime til I smoke the motor!
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tefinn
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#1 posted 01-10-2014 03:39 AM
Where there’s a will, there’s a way! Good looking drill press turnings!
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doubleDD
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#2 posted 01-10-2014 04:00 AM
Nice work. As long as everyone is OK, the lathe will come some day.
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
NaptownWood
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#3 posted 01-10-2014 04:00 AM
Who needs a lathe when you can make thise on the drill press. Looks great.
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NormG
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#4 posted 01-10-2014 08:16 AM
Great idea for the live center in the table hole
-- Norman - I never never make a mistake, I just change the design.
jman75
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#5 posted 01-10-2014 12:03 PM
Thanks guys…all ideas and inspiration comes from here along with feeding my addiction!
Craftsman on the lake
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#6 posted 01-10-2014 12:57 PM
This is a super idea. I’d love to turn a few small simple things like tool handles but don’t have a lathe in the shop. I’d appreciate it if you posted a couple of pictures of your set-up and which live center you purchased and how you attached it to the table. I’ll be watching this post in the event you add a couple of picts. Thanks!
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jman75
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#7 posted 01-10-2014 01:15 PM
Sure! Let me throw a little more coffee down the hatch and ill post up some
jman75
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#8 posted 01-10-2014 02:33 PM
Here is the hole in the table and I elongated it just a tiny bit with a step bit
The live center I bought from Woodcraft
The live center in place
The wood was pre-drilled before
Wood in place with countersink in the chuck
Snugged up with a clamp and ensuring it was straight before tightening the table. Then it’s on to turning!
I noticed a few times it would slip a little after turning a few minutes and I would have to stop and snug it up with the clamp but no biggie!
Hope this helps!
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#9 posted 01-10-2014 04:04 PM
It does.. Thanks!
-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful.
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#10 posted 01-10-2014 04:07 PM
looks great
are the pictures sideways because this was turned vertically on the drill press? ;) (just kidding)
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jman75
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#11 posted 01-10-2014 04:15 PM
For the life of me I can take the pic with this phone and they look straight…upload and they are sideways! I tried rotating them and nothing! Finally I hit post and walked away…lol
bch
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#12 posted 01-10-2014 06:52 PM
So what did you use for the tool rest?
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jman75
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#13 posted 01-10-2014 07:08 PM
Clamped different size wood to the table to reach whatever height I needed
MalcolmLaurel
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#14 posted 01-11-2014 01:28 AM
I did some turning with my drill press, but without a live center so the chuck would always fall off. It’s hard on the spindle bearings though; mine eventually started making alarming noises. Now that I’ve acquired a vertical mill (a mill/drill, really) I use that instead.
I did it a little different though, I drilled the workpiece, put a carriage bolt through it and tightened it with a nut and washer, then clamped the exposed threads in the chuck. I also made a few laurel burl shift knobs by first epoxying the threaded insert into the wood blank, then chucking a short stud screwed into the insert.
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jman75
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#15 posted 01-11-2014 01:42 AM
I did that starting off…got tired of ducking behind my barrel every time I turned it on. I made a drum sander for it with a long bolt, slipped some old swaybar bushings on it that I had lying around, put a thick washer with a teflon nut on the end to squeeze the bushings tight on the cartridge. Then cut the bolt head off and filed the threads down and chucked it up. Worked like a charm til my 4 yr old came down to the garage. It’s currently MIA
Not too worried about the bushings as this is an older drill press. I could see it wearing something out over time tho
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