Archive for the 'wood lathe chuck' Category

What is a wood lathe chuck?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

: Wood lathe chuck can be traced back to about 700 B.C. from fragments found in Scotland and from an Etruscan tomb. While many suspect that wood lathe chuck was practiced much earlier, experts cannot tell if the wood that they have found from Egyptian tombs was turned or hand shaped. A painting on Egyptian [...]

History of the wood lathe chuck?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

: The wood lathe chuck has been an important tool more or less as the antique Egyptians used a simple man-powered lathe to cut designs and forms into wood. Working with the ancient lathes requires two-man task. One person has been engaged in cutting tools to carve or shape the revolving piece of wood. The [...]