Greetings! While I have a reasonable grasp of which tools (roughing gouge, spindle gougle, skew, etc) are used for what - I have seen a few tools that I can't quite figure out.
I'm guessing someone, somewhere, has a web page that addresses differnt tool profiles and their intended uses. Or, perhaps better, different finished turnings, and the tools that were used. Either way would be helpful.
Any ideas?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe! Hal
Hi Hal,
Why no try this:
Hal No but I am working on something like it. It is not the first time the question has been raised.
Let me add to this. Every tool set that "comes free with the lathe" has a V-pointed tool that is beveled on the bottom.
Does this tool have a name? Does anyone use it?
and if not, why is it always included? Is this an urban myth tool?
Good morning,
My son rounded up a two CD set from Sorby, which of course advertised their tools. It included short videos of how to use each. Of course they had their best craftsman doing it, and it looked SO easy. But it's a good introduction, by the people who make 'em.
It was still available 6 months ago, don't know if it is now, but not too hard to check.
Old Guy
It's called a spear point
So you can use it to make a scraper of your own design. I made a curved scraper for bowls, and an angled one for inside boxes.
Hi Hal
Hal where better to look than by the makers of those tools, they will like you to need more "have to have" tools for all those cuts you could not make without them, ;-)))
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