More technique

A couple more techniques that I often find useful.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• woodturning
• turning
• wood lathe
• lathe

[hoold90]

Hi Bob, I'm a beginner and I've just been practising on a bowl in Brazilian Cedar. I've no experience of any wood really but found the end grain tear-out in this wood a problem, and the more I attempted to remedy it, the smaller my bowl got.

I wish I'd viewed this first. I may have missed it earlier but what exactly is that fluted gouge you use for the sheer cut please?

Thanks,

Gareth

[bobham5]

Hi, Gareth:

The gouge I am using in this video is a 5/8" side grind bowl gouge. The key to using the wing for shear cutting or scraping is to get it razor sharp.

Good Luck!

Bob

[gmwoodturner]

Hi Bob . Great lot of videos. Just looking into making some of my own woodturning related videos. Could you elaborate on your camera type and what you use to edit with

[bobham5]

Hi:

The first few series were done using my digital still camera's video mode. It is a Kodak DX7590. Later videos were made using a JVC hard disk drive camcorder. I am using Corel Video Studio for my editing now, although the first ones were done using Windows Movie Maker. See my video "Behind the Scenes" for my camera set-up.

Thanks

Bob

[bobham5]

Hi:

A catch is possible with any cut, but I don't find these techniques particularly "grabby". That may be because the surface is usually already shaped before I use these cuts and I am simply refining the surface by taking very light cuts.

Take care

Bob

[baconsoda]

What superb timing! I have just come in from the shop after taking a piece of spalted Beech off the lathe because I am getting so much tear-out at the endgrain. I'll give this technique a go later when I finish another piece I just started.

Thanks Bob,

Brendan