How To Make Wood Lathe Hollowing Tools

My goal is to make full set of hollowing tools for under 100.

How to make wood lathe hollowing tools. Easy Hollower 3 - This curve lets you get right up to the inside lip of your work. Place the ¼ or 38 square steel rod in a sharpening jig and lay the end of the rod against the grinding wheel at a 25 degree angle. Place the tool on the tool rest with the tool shaft parallel with the floor.

While securely holding the tool. If necessary regrind the rod the make both bevels even. Reverse the rod and grind halfway through the other side.

I turn mostly miniatures so I made a small one but it can be made in any size. A drill can be either a smooth borer like an ice pick or a screw-threaded borer such as in modern power drills. I already have the three mini tools from Easy Wood Tools.

We do not want to get to blue but to straw. The laser shines outside the place to look is where. They showed how to make a hollowing tool that only costs a few dollars to make.

This is a bit of a dance. Laser measuring devices that attach to the tool are also available so that you know the thickness of the side wall at. I glued the pieces together using wood glue and clamps.

I cut a piece of maple on my bandsaw and used my chisels and a mallet to carve a groove for the tool to sit in. The Mini Easy Rougher Mini Easy Finisher and the Mini Easy Detailer. Both sizes of steel rod are made the.