Turning Dowels

[Seafever]

I have heard you can use a drill to taper masts . How can you do this with out the chuck damaging the wood ?

 

[Seafever]

Awesome Thanks That's the trick I've been looking for ! I need to sand the oars down also and I am worried about the ends getting damaged

 

[Donnie]

I can tell you from experience that my ugly lathe drill contraption is just that :text-lol:
It turns so slowly - I'll tell you, my wife's electric egg beater will work better !!! :banana-dance:

I am wanting to get a real lathe one day soon.

Donnie

 

[SAHaskell]

I use my wood turning lathe for making cribbage pegs using 3/16" dowell stock. Instead of the usual headstock with a pointed end, I mount a drill chuck in the headstock and use a collet that I improvised from a piece of copper tube with ~3/16" I.D. It works extremely well. The collet will work just as well in a drill chuck for your purposes. See attached photos.

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[janos]

Excellent idea! And, even simpler, I just use a few revolutions of masking tape on the dowel before fixing it into the chuck.
Janos