surfdabbler
30th March 2020, 10:47 AM
I'm having an issue when turning, and wanting to get some advice.
Whenever I do a bevel-resting cut, it seems to get more unstable the further I go. For example, imagine turning a cylinder, already roughed out, and I want to take a nice light cut with a gouge to get it nice and smooth. Start at one end with the bevel resting, and then cut across the face from right to left. As I progress, the cut is no longer smooth, and by the end, I can feel it out of round, with a noticeable bump as it rotates. I find I have to go back over it with a light scraping cut to get it back to round.
Last night, I was roughing out some bowls with a bowl gouge. Again, scraping cuts, no problem, but after a couple of bevel resting cuts, it was no longer round, and the tool was jumping with each rotation. Inside the bowl was a nightmare, and bevel resting cuts were unusable, very quickly becoming out of round, and impossible to continue. I had to go back to a scraper.
I tried increasing the speed, but it didn't fix the issue, and just got scary. I've had this issue with different gouges, both on spindle turning and bowls. Gouges are sharp, and I'm taking light cuts.
Any ideas?
Whenever I do a bevel-resting cut, it seems to get more unstable the further I go. For example, imagine turning a cylinder, already roughed out, and I want to take a nice light cut with a gouge to get it nice and smooth. Start at one end with the bevel resting, and then cut across the face from right to left. As I progress, the cut is no longer smooth, and by the end, I can feel it out of round, with a noticeable bump as it rotates. I find I have to go back over it with a light scraping cut to get it back to round.
Last night, I was roughing out some bowls with a bowl gouge. Again, scraping cuts, no problem, but after a couple of bevel resting cuts, it was no longer round, and the tool was jumping with each rotation. Inside the bowl was a nightmare, and bevel resting cuts were unusable, very quickly becoming out of round, and impossible to continue. I had to go back to a scraper.
I tried increasing the speed, but it didn't fix the issue, and just got scary. I've had this issue with different gouges, both on spindle turning and bowls. Gouges are sharp, and I'm taking light cuts.
Any ideas?