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I made a chuck cradle to avoid damaging my D1-3 spindle. I wanted to use a single piece of oak, but I realized it would be too difficult to cut slots to perfectly fit the ways of my lathe. I decided I could more easily make followers for the ways and glue the cradle to those.
I used the table saw with the blade angled at 45 deg to make this V:
Then I mocked up the cradle on the ways and scribed a line on the cross bars. Then cut that out to form the cradle.
Then I glued the followers to the cradle cross pieces. I actually glued it in place under the chuck to get the alignment right:
Suggestions on what to finish this with? Polyurethane? Oil?
Robert
I used the table saw with the blade angled at 45 deg to make this V:
Then I mocked up the cradle on the ways and scribed a line on the cross bars. Then cut that out to form the cradle.
Then I glued the followers to the cradle cross pieces. I actually glued it in place under the chuck to get the alignment right:
Suggestions on what to finish this with? Polyurethane? Oil?
Robert