help on bowls

If you can secure a piece of HSS about 3/8" thick by 1" wide by a foot or so long you can grind a shallow curve in it to make a scraper that will smooth out the transition. That, at least, is what I did.

Bill

Sounds like a job for a radiused scraper.

Max

Sounds like you've got a flat bottom and straight sides? Takes two different tools or two different presentations of the same to do it smooth. If you can get there with good support, a small radius fingernail grind will side in and nose around cleanly. If not, pointed grind or scraper.

I normally make the curve all the way to center, and thus avoid the problem.

Marty The group is right on (not unusual). One of the hardest parts of a bowl is getting the transition from the sides to the bottom. the curve usually changes there because bowls generally sit on a flat so the inside needs to follow a curve that flattens at the bottom. It can be done with a continuously changing radius so that there is no transition point but more often there is rapid change and a flat, or relatively flat bottom. If you are forming the bottom flat you are likely using a scraper to do so. A radiused left corner will help immensely with that ridge. Gently touch the edge of the scraper to the ridge with a fine burr and angle it at about 45 degrees for a shear cut. Use what feels like no pressure to get small shavings. If this makes no sense let me know and I will get some picutures up for you.