aquan8tor
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Hey folks out there in milling land. Happy Holidays, merry christmas, happy channukah, happy kwanzaa, etc.etc.
So I'm trying to find the best deal on some 1"x8tpi right AND lefthand taps for lathe work. I've got several 3" faceplates, but not enough, as I'm learning.
I have an older rockwell 46-111 14"/11" gap bed lathe, and working on a faceplate means that I only have about a 2" depth capacity for anything above 11" in diameter up to 14", which limits my bowl making to 11", pretty much. I've thought about the faceplate logistics, being right out of the headstock, you lose the depth of the threads of the headstock spindle to dead space underneath. If I could make a glueblock faceplate I could have an effective one more inch to work with, if you follow. I've roughed out turned a couple larger diameter--up to 14" bowls on the outboard LH 1x8tpi spindle, but I didn't want to cut the depth down to be able to glue the roughed blank to a glueblock for finish turning. By making the threads part of the glueblock, I could increase my 14" diameter depth capacity from only about 2" deep to about 3". Still a shallow bowl, but I have a little bit of wide 10/4 and 12/4 cherry that I could use to make some beautiful bowls.
I wish I could upload a picture of what I'm talking about. I just got a new camera for christmas, but I need a memory card to use it. Damn things never come with all the right parts anymore.
As for faceplate wood material, I'm using red mulberry only because I have a fair amount of it, and it seems to be drying relatively well, and pretty check free, and is very hard when its dry. Makes some pretty bowls too; very yellow. Any other ideas for hard wood for faceplates?? I have a little bit of 6/4 5" wide black locust that I could use. I don't know how brittle it is.
I've seen the jet thread taps for making faceplates--I can find them for around $20 for a 1"x8tpi RH thread taps, but I can't seem to find a LH tap so that I can use the outboard spindle to make some wider bowls. I beefed up the motor, and I'm making an outboard tool rest from an old basketball hoop pole that was put in concrete in an old tire. pics if it works alright.
So I'm trying to find the best deal on some 1"x8tpi right AND lefthand taps for lathe work. I've got several 3" faceplates, but not enough, as I'm learning.
I have an older rockwell 46-111 14"/11" gap bed lathe, and working on a faceplate means that I only have about a 2" depth capacity for anything above 11" in diameter up to 14", which limits my bowl making to 11", pretty much. I've thought about the faceplate logistics, being right out of the headstock, you lose the depth of the threads of the headstock spindle to dead space underneath. If I could make a glueblock faceplate I could have an effective one more inch to work with, if you follow. I've roughed out turned a couple larger diameter--up to 14" bowls on the outboard LH 1x8tpi spindle, but I didn't want to cut the depth down to be able to glue the roughed blank to a glueblock for finish turning. By making the threads part of the glueblock, I could increase my 14" diameter depth capacity from only about 2" deep to about 3". Still a shallow bowl, but I have a little bit of wide 10/4 and 12/4 cherry that I could use to make some beautiful bowls.
I wish I could upload a picture of what I'm talking about. I just got a new camera for christmas, but I need a memory card to use it. Damn things never come with all the right parts anymore.
As for faceplate wood material, I'm using red mulberry only because I have a fair amount of it, and it seems to be drying relatively well, and pretty check free, and is very hard when its dry. Makes some pretty bowls too; very yellow. Any other ideas for hard wood for faceplates?? I have a little bit of 6/4 5" wide black locust that I could use. I don't know how brittle it is.
I've seen the jet thread taps for making faceplates--I can find them for around $20 for a 1"x8tpi RH thread taps, but I can't seem to find a LH tap so that I can use the outboard spindle to make some wider bowls. I beefed up the motor, and I'm making an outboard tool rest from an old basketball hoop pole that was put in concrete in an old tire. pics if it works alright.
