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?
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?