two jaw chuck made by Richard Kell

I made this self centring chuck in the early 1980's, I was fascinated by design and craftsmanship and had been very keen on lathes and turning since childhood. I was given a reading list by a prospective craftsman employer when I was fourteen so my head would be full of Plumier, Bergerons 'Manual de Tourner' and Holtzapffel.

The dice are 0.6 inch AF with a tolerance (from memory) of +/- four thou (ie 0.004") on the AF dimension. It functions as a chuck for the treadle lathe so being able to machine accurate chamfers, then on the drilling machine for inlay hole drilling. The backplate came with the treadle lathe that I bought around 1976, the lathe being eighty years old then.

See my honng guides, dovetail markers, bevel gauges etc on http://www.richradkell.co.uk which is my main selling website or visit my stockists in England and the USA. Also have a look at my workshop blog where my main aim is to provide an 'interesting' read http://richardkell.livejournal.com

The skeleton brass set square on the bench is one of several I was asked to make many years ago for a bookbinder working at a London Museum.

Cecil Jordan rang me a couple of years after the Oxford Gallery exhibition and we got on so very well. I'm so glad he made the effort to get in touch.

copyright richard kell 2009

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[richardkelltoolmaker]

lock picking tolls ... thats a good idea!!

[RiteSedFred123]

@RiteSedFred123 **big

[RiteSedFred123]

start making lock picking tools, there's a bit market for them,,

[simonstorm91]

Simply Amazing. I love how creative machining was before cnc technology came along.