Peter Natale
27th January 2023, 07:57 PM
Hi All
I was attempting to make a small lidded pot today, and was working on the base. Outside was done and reversed into a chuck, but the inside gave me trouble.
Where I struggled in particular was the inside of the lip, which was intended to be vertical and square. I had removed a bit of the inside and wanted to set the lip so i could reference a wall thickness as I worked my way down.
Using a 1/2" bowl gouge i was scraping / pull cutting with the left wing, flute mostly up and as I came near the lip it catches, rolls hard left and the first broke the rim, and second after shortening the pot snapped the tennon. Game over.
I know why, as it comes to the lip the contact moves off the wing towards the tip and then it is unsupported. The question is how should I cut the lip? Or at least, whats are better options that dont result in half pots in the bin. If I can get a few mm straight i can then shear down.
The ideas I had are:
1. Shear / Push cut, hard to start accurately on the flat surface even on its side and its a loooong reach over the lathe
2. Scraper - which i currently dont have (i use a skew and it isnt nice to the skew)
3. longer, flatter wing so i can stay on the wing and away from the tip
Any guidance would be much appreciated!
Note the wood was old furniture oak 2x4 glued to be a 4x4 mounted cross grain. Its hard as a rock, routinely bends nails. Gouge was not as sharp as it should be (the oak i find blunts tools fast) and the right wing shape has gone weird (not sure why yet) so it shear cuts left better than right, which is partly why i wasn't shear cutting into the pot.
I was attempting to make a small lidded pot today, and was working on the base. Outside was done and reversed into a chuck, but the inside gave me trouble.
Where I struggled in particular was the inside of the lip, which was intended to be vertical and square. I had removed a bit of the inside and wanted to set the lip so i could reference a wall thickness as I worked my way down.
Using a 1/2" bowl gouge i was scraping / pull cutting with the left wing, flute mostly up and as I came near the lip it catches, rolls hard left and the first broke the rim, and second after shortening the pot snapped the tennon. Game over.
I know why, as it comes to the lip the contact moves off the wing towards the tip and then it is unsupported. The question is how should I cut the lip? Or at least, whats are better options that dont result in half pots in the bin. If I can get a few mm straight i can then shear down.
The ideas I had are:
1. Shear / Push cut, hard to start accurately on the flat surface even on its side and its a loooong reach over the lathe
2. Scraper - which i currently dont have (i use a skew and it isnt nice to the skew)
3. longer, flatter wing so i can stay on the wing and away from the tip
Any guidance would be much appreciated!
Note the wood was old furniture oak 2x4 glued to be a 4x4 mounted cross grain. Its hard as a rock, routinely bends nails. Gouge was not as sharp as it should be (the oak i find blunts tools fast) and the right wing shape has gone weird (not sure why yet) so it shear cuts left better than right, which is partly why i wasn't shear cutting into the pot.