What's your favorite tool for hollowing small hollow forms

[Dwight McNutt]

Fixing to start trying to do one, and just curious what everyone uses and why? All knowledge will be so appreciated.

Thanks Dwight

[George Morris]

I use the Don Derry ornament hollow tool for my Xmas tree ornaments. I use the monster articulate system for larger forms. Both work well for there uses!

[John Keeton]

Dwight, I use a hand held tool that Jeff Nicol makes, and it works very well. However, I will soon be the owner of a Monster Articulated system!! (stealth gloat - don't have to post pic yet!:D)

Here are some threads that may be of help to you.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=43482
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=27257
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=138643

Hopefully, you will get some great responses to your post, and good luck with your hollowing endeavors!

[bob svoboda]

For small things, I also use the ornament hollower from Don Derry.

[Tim Rinehart]

See...you know you're heading down a slope when someone asks this. Here's my approaches based on tools I have available...

First, If I am doing something that I can 'feel' the thickness pretty well all the way down to the bottom, then a hollowing rig doesn't come into play for me.

In all cases, I use a 3/8" bowl gouge with swept wings to get as much material out as I can initially, on smaller opening HFs.

If my opening is 1" or so, I'll use a Sorby Multi-tool with a HSS tip to hog material out and then perhaps use the Sorby Swan neck multitool to get under shoulders where straight tool can't reach.

If my opening is under 1", I'll use a straight and also a swan neck Hunter tool (carbide) to get all the material out.

I'm not equipped to use my Jamieson style hollowing rig for any hole size under 1", but it's used on 1" and up for HFs that get to deep to either measure well with calipers, or where the number of times to use calipers is high compared with ease of having laser feedback on thickness. Regardless, I'll manually get a lot of material out with hand held tools before using the hollowing rig.

[Mike Minto]

How can you buy anything from that Derry site? When I click on an add to cart button, nothing happes - and I saw no prices posted, either...

[Allen Neighbors]

I use a small bent neck hollowing tool that I made from a pair of bandage scissors, and a very small 1/4" bent oland tool with an eighth-inch cutter.

[George Guadiane]

I know I'm a "Johnny One Note," but the Rolly Munro mini hollower with the thinner shaft is what I would recommend. You could even get the mini with the tapered shaft in case you want to venture into bigger pieces. It cuts very nicely (especially end grain) and it's ARTICULATED so that you can adjust from straight to very curved to get around to the difficult recesses... The only thing I would add is an extra link, that GREATLY increases the articulation.

[John Hart]

These two are my favorites (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=26673&highlight=Ugly+Stick)for small to medium forms. They're homemade. A little bigger forms, I switch to the Sorby Hollowmaster (which was a gift from someone here on the Creek...I still don't know who)