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    Default A small bowl to fill in the day

    I had nothing to do today except for applying a coat of danish oil on a hall table I am currently building and that only takes an hour or so. To fill in the rest of this miserable Melbourne day, I grabbed a pretty awful turning blank that I had glued up from scraps a while ago made with highly figured redgum, myrtle and blackwood. It was a pain in the butt to turn because of the diameter vs height at ~115mm diameter x 95mm high. I found myself with the bowl gouge hanging a mile out from the tool rest while trying to smooth out the inside bottom of the bowl. I got there in the end but was constantly concerned that I would break the gouge at the ferrule while my face was directly over the ferrule so that I could see inside the bowl, faceshield or not I didn't like my chances of walking away scar free if things went bad.

    Somehow after turning the outside of the bowl with a recess for mounting, when I reversed the bowl in the chuck it was no where close to running true. I must have done something funny with the recess, so I put it back on the worm screw and made the recess a little larger and this time when I reversed it in the chuck it ran pretty true.

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    Kuffy, not bad for a time filler. It didn't look like it would be that difficult, but know what you mean by not having the tools to make things easier. I watched your video and see my turning style is about like yours. I get the same skips like you at about 3:28-29 in the video. Do you think it's from the tool being dull, the grain direction changing as you went further up, or is it something on the tool rest that would cause it? BTW, love your accent... ............. Jerry (in Tucson).

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    I don't have an accent

    I skip along losing the cut constantly. There was some sticky stuff on the rest, possibly a blob of old shellawax which didnt make things any easier. I think as I move along trying to rub the bevel, eventually I rub the heel of the bevel which turns the bevel into a ramp pushing the tool away from the cut. I noticed my tool is pretty dull right off my 80g alox grinding wheel and usually I will just push harder. But half way thru I decided to use a fine diamond plate to hone the edge. The difference was chalk and cheese, time to get a 180g cbn wheel me thinks

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    Nicely done there Shannon
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    Cheers Matt


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    That's a taller version of the one I made last week! Better looking than mine too! I had to remake the foot on mine after I had a grab doing the inside just like you were worried about.


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