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Are there any examples of lathe-turned wooden handwheels for a vise?

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Hello,

I'm gathering bits & pieces to make a vise or two for my bench, and after shopping around for 6"-8" handwheels I'm considering turning them on my lathe. I haven't decided whether to make it like a dished machine wheel, spoked or a solid with a crank, or make it like a flat spoked ship's wheel.

For a dished wheel (which would be easiest to make), I could make a glued-up hardwood blank 2-1/4 or 3" thick with a 1-8TPI nut embedded in it. I could chuck that directly on my lathe spindle and turn for perfect concentricity I suppose that I could come up with other bore sizes too.

So, does anybody have advice/opinions?
 
#6 ·
It is pretty trivial to make wheels on a lathe… I've made dozens out of everything from wood to recycled milk jugs (HDPE). It's also trivial to attach a spinning handle - just use a bolt with a nylock nut so it's free to spin. There are many examples on this site… from pretty fancy to this plain one I did a while back for my Makita planer:

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Cheers,
Brad
 

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