How To Use A Wood Lathe Gouge

Using a bowl gouge make simple clean straight cuts across the face of the bowl blank.

How to use a wood lathe gouge. Many of his ladderback and Windsor chair spindles can be shaped from beginning to end with the roughing gouge. So at the start your tool is hitting wood air wood air wood air wood air. An angle finder would be a good investment so that you can verify the angles to be sharpened.

Roughing gouges turn stock from the usual square shape to round shape while the spindle gauge creates coves even beads as well as other details. Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. In the spindle turning process the lathes tool normally rests in a position close to the wood stock so that it can support.

To get rid of the center material you should be making very gradual cuts. The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank and you hold it at a downward angle the tool is lower than the handle. Scrapers are used to remove the marks left by your bowl gouge.

Let the lathe turn slowly and your bowl starts rotation. Do not use any other types of screws than wood screws. A good black felt pen to color in the tip of your turning chisels to see where the grinding wheel makes contact with the gouge.

Each time the tool and the wood. It turns out I have been using my tools not correctly but thanks to the Dublin Woodturners Guild I received some tips and happy to share. Mainly used to turn the spindles which involve stocks longer than its width and is placed in the lathe parallel to the lathes turning axis.

Once thats done screw the face plate into the live head of your wood lathe. This tool is incredibly versatile and capable of doing very fine work. Look at the flat outside surface of a fresh bowl blank on the lathe.