How To Build A Pole Lathe: Part 4
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2019
- A detailed tutorial all about how to build yourself a pole lathe for bowl turning. This final part covers how to fit the centres, finish off the tool rest, make the treadle and fit the bungee and drive cord.
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Intro music: The Steal - The Possibilities Are Endless
The intro music alone is reason enough to watch the video! Thanks for these detailed videos!
Thanks a million for this series! It has helped me out a lot building my own. Although I'm using dimentional lumber and have to make things differently the ideas are exactly the same. Can't wait to use it with your hooks that I just recived!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching these vids 👏
Very helpful! This was the tricky part of the bill for me, I wasn’t sure how people secure those metal points
T👍 a great tutorial thanks. I've just completed my lathe and your tips were so useful, brilliant many thanks.
34:05 -- hah. I like the phrase: "if you can't tie knots, tie lots" :-)
Such a great video series, thanks a lot man! Loads of good tips throughout the vids too. Cheers!
Thanks Owen for your very detailed videos and your plans!
Thank you so much, I’m starting to collect parts for my own bowl lathe which will be a slightly different construction but your videos will definitely be helpful for my construction. Thank you Owen.
Great series - thanks Owen. I will look forward to more videos in due course
Thanks Rob. I appreciate the kind words 🙏
Proper job cheers. Great series of tutorial vids. Thank you....looking forward to what comes next.
Thanks Dave. I'm in the process of getting some more sorted 👍
Thank you so much Owen for doing these videos, sharing such a valuaeable info. I am very grateful. Awsome job!
Thanks Gorazd 👍
Great series Owen. I learned a few things I can do to improve my lathe. Very much appreciated.
Brilliant! I am glad I could help 👍
Thanks so much Owen. I'll finish mine this weekend hopefully. It's really useful to know the places where a measurement has to be careful because of one part's relationship to another, as opposed to the bits where you can just drill a hole by eye about where you think it needs to be. I've already forged some hook tools so am looking forward to getting to the really hard part - actually turning bowls!
Cheers,
Douglas
I'm glad you feel that these have helped! Good luck with your turning
Thank you for this serie of video's. Just great, too bad this is the last part. Tnx again man ✌
I don't think I could have strung it out much more 😀 Don't worry, I'll be doing more
What also works quite well is the string for weed cutters. Doesn't wear as fast as other cords.
Hi thanks for your videos i have just started building a lathe with round wood so adapting your plan a bit. What was the depth you set the horizontal centre at? Not sure if i missed it. Also unsure if you will even see this as you made it so long ago.. 😂.
Thanks Owen. I'm thinking of getting rid of my pole (driven by ocky straps) in favour of bungee cord. Two questions:
Does ir provide the same RPM?
How many wraps of bungee cord are required?
Thanks.
Hi Owen, really informative series. Can I ask what the approximate footprint of the assembled lathe is? Not convinced I have room for one
Was wondering how you attach the piece your about too turn. How it stays on
Did I miss where you covered the mandrill?
Sorry for the confusion I have trying to explain what I mean. Was meaning how do you wrap the cord over your work to make it turn. Plus your bowl you have a different piece. To help with the bowl. When carving do you carve only on the down stroke?
I wonder if making the ends of the centers that go into the poppets square, rather than leaving them round, would better prevent them from shifting I've not seen anyone do this with their lathe (probably because chiseling a square mortise that small would be tedious, but they could be burned into a round hole like some chisel handles are done ), but I do sort of wonder if it would make a difference. (hopefully this makes sense, as I'm not the best at describing things sometimes. lol.)
Some people do that, or just make the centres out of square steel. It would certainly stop any movement but I don't know how much you would gain from it really.
Owen, when drilling the centres, do you use the same diameter drill as the centre itself??
Yes that's right. It should be a push fit and then I use epoxy to set them in
Thanks, do you also test fit before using epoxy?? In which case how do you get the straight centre out if it really tight??
Thanks again.
I don't understand the mechanism for bowl turning piece that was used . Wasn't explained in this build. Turning for the bowl. Wooden piece the cord wrapped around
Hi John. The piece you are asking about is called a mandrel. There are a couple of ways to make them. The simplest is to shape a tenon onto the end of a cylinder and then knock it into a tight hole drilled in the bowl face . The other way is to insert nails or spikes into the end of the mandrel and , in turn, hammer them into the face of the bowl. Once I get back into gear, I can do a video explaining better
Thanks alot. Would really appreciate it.
I like your build. Not relying on a branch
Not a pole lathe if it uses bungee cords.
Its exactly the same machine, just with a different return system. I actually mention it in the video. This can be set up with a pole or with bungee.