Has anyone Tried This Tool???

[GA Darling]

I was looking through the Craft Supplies USA catalog and ran across the woodchucker mandrel http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/cgi-bin/shopper?preadd=action&key=995-6000 I was wanting to know if anyone has used this or something like it for hollow forms. It looks like it might be a good system.

 

[laymarcrafts]

I have been using a similar set up for many years and have detailed the making and use of it on my Web Site:

www.laymar-crafts.co.uk/tip38.htm

It works well and I have three versions that covers my needs all for a few Pence [Cents].

Richard

 

[Brian Myers]

Don Pencil also makes one, simply called "Multipurpose Jam Chuck".
http://www.donpencil.com/

 

[Brian Myers]

I have been using a similar set up for many years and have detailed the making and use of it on my Web Site:

www.laymar-crafts.co.uk/tip38.htm

It works well and I have three versions that covers my needs all for a few Pence [Cents].

Richard

Richard,
You get my vote for best turning website and most ambitious. :cool2: Thanks for all your hard work that you are willing to share.
Brian

 

[GA Darling]

Thanks for the replies Richard and Brian. Between the three sources I should be able to make one of these mandrels fairly easy.

GA Darling

 

[webturner]

A few years back I was doing one of my favorite activities: wandering through a hardware store looking for gadgets that could be used for woodturning, even if that's not what they were designed for. I ran across one of these:

http://www.doityourself.com/invt/0274613

It's called a Long Stem Reseating Tool, you use it to clean out the gunk that builds up inside a water valve that makes it leak. Anyway, it looks exactly like a small version of a woodchucker mandrel. At the time I was doing mostly small scale turnings and it was just the right size. (about 10 inches long) It has a screw on reamer on the end. I found that a rubber pad would protect the inside of your vase and not slip too much. The plastic cone slides into the neck of the vase. You can use a small hose clamp around the shaft to hold the cone in place. The T handle is easily removed so that the shaft can be inserted into a jacobs chuck. Plus, when you are not using it to hold your small vase on the lathe, you can use it to repair those leaky water valves by the garden.

I remember paying under $3 for one at a discount hardware store somewhere.

 

[rbabbittjr]

Do a google search for kirsten kone for more information.

 

[cypher]

I hae been using something similar for a while now. I had a machiniest friend of mine turn a morse #2 taper on a piece of round bar and thred a whole in the other end. i screwed a table leg foot into the other end and stuck some velcro on it. The adjustable part is a piece of nylon plastic. with a locking screw on the side.

I mainly use in to finish the bottom of deep hollow forms and vases.

All in all if Craftsupply had this when i was looking for it i would have bough it insted of making it.