Anyone have plans for homemade captive hollowing system?

[Doug W Swanson]

Hey all,

I'm thinking about building a hollowing system. After watching a captive system in use on Woodturner's Workshop, I thought it would be fairly easy to build my own.

Does anyone have any plans or tutorials on how to build one?

Thanks!

[Harry Robinette]

Doug
I just posted some pics and ideas I think ether the 1st ,2nd or 3rd of this month.They are of my system that we made a couple years age.It works very well and is pretty cheap to make.Any questions PM me.
Harry

[Bruce Stangeby]

I have made this one. http://www.laymar-crafts.co.uk/tip24.htm I changed some of the dimensions to better fit my needs. It was easy to build and works quite well.

[Kelvin Burton]

Lyle Jamison has plans of his system on his web site at https://www.lylejamieson.com/tools/tool.asp

[Tim Rinehart]

Yet another resource....go about 1/3 way down and look for "Homemade Hollowing.."
http://www.woodturningonline.com/Turning/Turning_articles.html

[Doug W Swanson]

Thanks for the replies. Now I have to decide which one to build (or which parts of each system I want to incorporate in mine!).

Thanks!
Doug

[Randy Hoch]

Brian McEvoy sells plans for a LARGE captive rig. I built it and think it's great and well worth the $15 for the detailed blueprints IMHO.

[Thom Sturgill]

How you make the rear gate depends in part on whether you have access to a welder or not. I used tube steel and space the bars with bolts. Lyle's rig has solid bar stock top and bottom (edges rounded) welded on the ends. I put a 1/4" steel rod on top of the bottom bar others have used the UHMD (http://www.woodcraft.com/Family/2000897/UHMW-Sheets.aspx) strips to give smooth movement. I have seen numerous designs for d ring handles as well. I drilled and tapped some 3/4 bar and attached flat stock . I have seen Lyle bends one bar into a 'U' shape and welds it to a straight bar that has the receiver for the boring bar welded to it.