6 jaw chuck and taper bars

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SK Custom Cues

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I am needing some help with finding a 6 jaw chuck and taper bars. I have been looking but there are some things I am not familiar with. First, there is Bison and Buck. Second, there is a number that goes with it like D2, or L-0. Can someone help me figure out what this is?

Also, my lathe is a model

<~~~~~~~~~5911 Clausing 12x36 and is in pretty good condition.

I am in the process of leveling it out and bolting it down. My next step is to get the chuck and zero it out as well as the tailstock.

I was checking into a saw tapering machine, but that option seems a bit too far fetched for me at this point. I may ask someone local like Mr. Haley to make me one at some point, but I don't see that there is anyone who wants to help me in that area with the exception of one guy who I cannot afford to even consider.

For that reason, I will most likely go with taper bars for now. I am looking for a way to get set up with those on my lathe. If there is anyone who can point me in the right direction, or present some options, I would be grateful. What I'm really looking for is someone who has a similar lathe and is a machinist who would be willing to work with me. I think that would be the most efficient way for me to go.

I understand that I could have gone down the easy path and gotten a deluxe and been making cues by now :rolleyes: but this way, I feel that I will be a much more experienced cue maker in the long run.

Thanks,
Sung
 
Sung,

I have a 12 x 36 lathe and I installed a 6 jaw bison. You must mount the faceplate to your lathe and then you must face the plate before you mount your chuck.

What you need to remember is that your 36" bed is measured from point centers on the morse tapers. When you add your chuck and faceplate thicknesses, chuck mounted dead center, tail stock mounted live center you get pretty close to not being able to put a 29" butt with your pin installed between centers.

It is important to take this into consideration when you face the faceplate. My set up just makes it when I put a butt between centers and leave enough room for my router to clear the chuck with the dead center installed. A 12 x 36 is big enough to work on cues but a 12 x 40 gives your more room to play with.

If I were you I would keep my 3 jaw and put my money into the taper bar modification. Chances are with that clausing that a 3 jaw chuck will be fine for cue making. If I had to do it all over I would have kept my 3 jaw as I dialed in my 6 jaw as close as I can and I now use a rotary grinding tool to true up my jaws and finish with a lapping bar. It might work just as good with the 3 jaw.

As far as the taper bar set up, you will have to build one to match your lathe. When I posted pics of my router set up I made sure that I showed the taper bar set up. Hear it is for your viewing:

http://s636.photobucket.com/albums/uu86/scdiveteam/?albumview=slideshow
Rick Geschrey
 
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call me obtuse, but i have never heard of a 5911 in the 5900 series, nor could i find one. you can easily call clausing and ask them. any buck or bison dealer worth dealing with can probably answer your question as well.
 
pescadoman said:
call me obtuse, but i have never heard of a 5911 in the 5900 series, nor could i find one. you can easily call clausing and ask them. any buck or bison dealer worth dealing with can probably answer your question as well.
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It's what the previous owner told me, he could've been mistaken. When he handed me the manual, he mentioned how the manual was for a 5914 and the lathe was a 5911. Actually, it could've been 5411, I will check.
 
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Your lathe has a L00 spindle nose. The same chuck will work on many different lathes but you have to have the backing plate that matches the lather you want to put it on. Like L00, L0, and there are many others.
 
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SK Custom Cues said:
I am needing some help with finding a 6 jaw chuck and taper bars. I have been looking but there are some things I am not familiar with. First, there is Bison and Buck. Second, there is a number that goes with it like D2, or L-0. Can someone help me figure out what this is?

Also, my lathe is a model

<~~~~~~~~~5911 Clausing 12x36 and is in pretty good condition.

I am in the process of leveling it out and bolting it down. My next step is to get the chuck and zero it out as well as the tailstock.

I was checking into a saw tapering machine, but that option seems a bit too far fetched for me at this point. I may ask someone local like Mr. Haley to make me one at some point, but I don't see that there is anyone who wants to help me in that area with the exception of one guy who I cannot afford to even consider.

For that reason, I will most likely go with taper bars for now. I am looking for a way to get set up with those on my lathe. If there is anyone who can point me in the right direction, or present some options, I would be grateful. What I'm really looking for is someone who has a similar lathe and is a machinist who would be willing to work with me. I think that would be the most efficient way for me to go.

I understand that I could have gone down the easy path and gotten a deluxe and been making cues by now :rolleyes: but this way, I feel that I will be a much more experienced cue maker in the long run.

Thanks,
Sung
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Those numbers are identifying the spindle type. Yours is a L00 and you can use a buck, bison, PBA, or another kind as long as you have a L00 backing plate on the chuck.
 
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