Lathe die holder 1st attempt

[sycle1]

My first die holder for the lathe! I know its a bit rough round the edges I am still learning

 

[BladesIIB]

That is a great start for learning. Congrats!

 

[Eddyde]

Looks great! Please post more pictures, especially if you have some taken during fabrication.

 

[MrWhoopee]

Nice work! These are a great little project and a very useful tool.
I have to make some adapter rings for mine as I have discovered that metric dies come in an assortment of sizes and none of them are 1 or 1.5 in.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

very cool! Looks much nicer than mine and will probably be just as useful. They're really handy for making small screws or finishing off some single point threading

 

[riversidedan]

looks good..... sycle1 looks like mine only problem is I only had 1 in. dia 6061 so the dies were to big to fit, so need some 1.5 stock.......and yes thier not that hard to make, I had to buy 1 pre-made but after that figured out how they were produced, just used 2 5-40 grub screws to hold the die being the die already had a divit for one screw to grab.. wasnt concerned with the knurl as I can go back and re-do it

its the perfect project for the newbie

 

[th62]

Why so many screws to hold the die in. I have two, one for 25mm dies, another for 30mm dies I made the other day. Good job BTW, nice knurling.