Measuring Wood Before Lathing

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Ok, now we have got a new squared up, or four sides, our two ends are square, a nice squared piece of wood. We've got to measure the dead center we chuck this up in the lathe; we don't want to be off center, so when it turns it will be out of square. We want it to turn nice and round, so the way we do that, we've got a couple different options, we've got a tri-square with a forty five degree bevel on it, we can put that up here, and we can mark it across with a pencil, like that; or they come with a nice quick little jig like this; that has a forty five built into it, aligns perfectly centered , and its much easier to operate, you just simply find the two sides, hold it down, and draw your line. Now we've got a nice x in the middle, we are going to do the other end now. You want to double check yourself; you can just rotate the stock around and measure from the other side. With all four of these lines drawn, then you know you?re in the dead center right there. Now this is called a turning spur, and this is what goes into the lathe itself, when you take it out of the lathe, center it in here, tap it down with a hammer and get these little edges here, to bite into the wood. This is what keeps the stock rotating, keeps it in there tight, from flying out. So that center post there, we're going to put the center of the hole. Once we get that lined up, take our hammer, you want to drive it in hard enough to leave these marks just like we had in the original. That?s what happens; it holds it in there nice and tight. So once we get them driven in, we can take the spur out, we're going to put it back in the lathe, and re-chuck this piece in the lathe. And that's the next part of the process.

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