Before hollowing the bottom of a bowl I estimate the thickness before putting it on the Cole jaws. Later I forget how much I have to work with. I made a jig to measure the inside depth before reversing the bowl, then check the bottom thickness as I hollow it.
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Pounding the pulpit in news:42bacdd3$1 snipped-for-privacy@spool9-west.superfeed.net, Gerald Ross did expound thusly:
You hollow bowls on Cole jaws? Wow, I'd like to see /your/ lathe... :D
Good idea, I'm embarrased I hadn't thought of it myself! All too often I've turned off a foot or tenon to discover myself the proud owner of an ornamental funnel... [sigh]
Well, I don't like to leave the bottom flat. I turn it flat, then scoop out the center part, leaving a quarter inch rim as a foot.
Pounding the pulpit in news:42bc1159$1 snipped-for-privacy@spool9-west.superfeed.net, Gerald Ross did expound thusly:
Ahhhh... I see. Personally I'd call that "trimming" rather than hollowing; to me hollowing means major excavation, but I know what you mean and do the same... I assume most other turners do, too.
I just had this picture in my head of a bloke trying to hollow out a blank through the headstock spindle...
Sort of like 'tighten it down until it strips and then back it off a half turn'.
Bill
Chuck wrote:
I've always used daylight, myself. At least it tells me when I've gone too far.
Isn't that why they're hollow? I just sharpened the end of the ram rod that came with the lathe, that's made to go through the head stock.. Shaving removal is sort of slow, too..
mac
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I thought you had a vacuum fitting?
nope.. I was the one that thought that they were too expensive, until the vacuum thread... now, I'm just too lazy to build one...
mac
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Ah. I was like that, but now I'm too lazy to procrastinate.
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