One-Piece Coffee Scoops, Part 4: Making a Better Chuck

The first time I saw someone turning a small scoop in one piece of wood, I was intrigued, but I didn't like the complicated, nuts-and-bolts-and plywood clamp for holding the scoop at right angles to the handle axis. So I bumbled my way through simpler ways to hold the piece. The first part of this video is making the scoop chuck I use now. I thought I'd do this in one video, but I'd forgotten how many stages of evolution my chucking method went through. Here is the link to Part 1.    • Learning to Turn One Piece Coffee Scoops, ...   If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer    / oregonoldtimer   you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until July last year. I'd watched a few woodturning videos and got the bug. The prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high at a sale and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started. After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with the bed extension that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expect this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life. Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner. My other channel:    / @oregonoldtimer   My Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EricRushArt I post photos of woodturning projects from time to time on my website: https://www.ericrush.com