Thread: Rehabbing a bowl gouge

Originally Posted by NeilS

Jeff - me thinks you won't be able to claim novice status for too much longer....

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Neil - a very lucky winner in Novice at the big show. But I remain a novice.

and Ken W, owe me a lesson or three at discount rates.....

Congrat's Jeff.

That means you can't enter the Novice class again?

Ern, quite correct.

Intermediate next year......

Well Jeff, that's great news.

I have to confess that I thought you'd get lost in tool mania but you've done prize-winning work and that's a credit to your persistence. Onya.

Thanks for that Ern.

You're not the only one that had concerns about my spending.......

And I did have watching over me with the platter, ensuring I did the hard yards. As much a credit to him as anyone.

We're all only as good as our teachers and the way we practice and develop what we've learned from them.

Hi Guys

Thanks for the advice on shaping the convex profile.

I had some degree of success this weekend with the advice provided.
In fact my 10mm Sorby bowl gouge came up a treat early on a frosty Saturday morning without too much of a struggle. I've still got some refining to do ...but the "beak" is gone.
To put the improved profile to the test I turned this 200mm dia. bowl (not the best pics..I know) out of an unpromising camphor laurel blank (old, very dry and with many small cracks). I kept the sides relatively thick at 8 - 10mm due to the cracks, but cut a very thin rim profile to disguise the thick sides. The base has a very slight ogee which kinda works for me. The Sorby didn't let me down.

Finished with organoil, allowed to dry for 24 hrs, then buffed with white diamond.

The missus is happy...and that's what counts.


Cheers again!

Gazza

Originally Posted by jefferson

Ern, quite correct.

Intermediate next year......

Good onya!

(Hehehe! )

Originally Posted by badgaz

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To put the improved profile to the test I turned this 200mm dia. bowl

Posted again due to recent Forum technical failure:

Gazza, going by that bowl the new gouge profile seems to be working a treat...

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Reposted due to meltdown on the 6th.

This thread was prolly started in response to me asking Ern the best way to fix my bowl gouge which has become a multi faceted Ellsworth grind. This has come about partly because of my bad babit of overworking the wings and partly due to changing from using the Woodcut sharpening jig to using the Tormek style. I've left the offending gouge at 's so that he can use it in a practical demo on the best way to fix up a stuff up.

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