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Help with basic technique fail please
I have been having fun turning bowls, but having run out of storage and people to give them to I decided to make some salt and pepper grinders using Crushgrind shaft mechanisms. I had some lovely lace sheoak blanks from Dusteater but thought I would try a practice on some Blackwood first. That was just as well as I chose the wrong web instructions from the US for the first one (it had the instructions the wrong way around - the base was drawn as the shorter section of the grinder!). That caused all sort of problems but, having sorted that I made the first grinder up without any trouble.
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So, emboldened, I began to rough out the shape for the second grinder with my roughing gouge. Instead of a lovely smooth surface to finish with the skew chisel or with sandpaper the surface became very lumpy and the gouge cut spiral grooves in it! It was very disconcerting.
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So, I've fixed it now, but could someone please tell me what I did wrong so I can avoid that problem next time? (I'll post some pics of the finished salt grinder when I receive the next mechanism and assemble it.)
Thanks
David