Vase

Rick, Paul, Miles, Brian, Chris

Paul drilled out his vase..made a mistake by not cutting off the end base first and so the hole goes all the way through and will have to be plugged eventually.

Practiced finding the centers on the lathe by using a chalk mark as the piece turns and tapping the end of the wood until it is centered correctly.

This seems to be quite effective as locating a center.

Use increasingly large drills to get the holes bores out.

Best to start with a centering bit like a machinists bit to get the hole started accurately.

Vase project Photos

Vase

April 30/13

Rick, Paul, Miles, Brian, J MacLean, J Hiltz

Tip:

A Jarno taper is what most drill press Jacob Chucks have.

This won’t fit into a morse taper tailstock .

Leo advises that when driving a Morse taper onto the lathe or drill press, open the jaws and use a deadman rod to tap the chick in. Don not hit the end of the jaws to do this.

1 Then center the tailstock end.
2 Turn the square and if one corner is off, stabilize the tailstock center with a block of wood under it, then tap the wood blank  with a mallet to move it in the proper direction. This shifts the wood slightly on the 4 screws.
3 Repeat this until the tailstock end is square.
4 Then you can turn the piece to a round cylinder.

5 Remove the temporary block at the tailstock end Reverse the blank, placing the tailstock end into the headstock chuck
6 Use a skew to get a center on the end that is now in the tailstock and take it down so as the drill bits will enter cleanly
7 Then turn the squared end to a round spiggot
8 Part off the end piece according to the diagram, rounding the pieces appropriately

These ends will be tapered

9 Place a sturdy bit in the tailstock and drill a hole. The black lines mark the hole, drilled through to the end. The larger piece is usually reversed to drll both ends, according to the length of your available bits.

10 Gradually enlarge this hole with larger bits. By enlarging the opening to a close fit for the bit to enter , a Forstner bit can be used to drill as the hole gets larger
11 Finish drilling with a sturdy large diameter bit

Rick did his vase project on Leo's lathe.
He went through all the steps down to drilling the hole by the time the evening was up.

Vase project Photos