Roger Chandler
12-30-2012, 7:39 PM
Okay.....I had some time this afternoon to do a little turning with my new Serious Toolworks Ultimate 1/2" bowl gouge. I thought I would put it through a "serious" workout :D so I cut a large blank from some Norway maple that a neighbor had given to me when a few of his trees blew down in that big windstorm we had back in the summer.
This was wet......had been on the ground for about 6 months and was heavy........the blank weighed in at approx. 35-40 1bs [my estimate] and was not totally circular, but was about 12" oblong, just a bit.....and it came apart on me in the initial going.
249568 249569 I used the 1/2" bowl gouge for everything......roughing and shaping the tenon for the chuck ............that was a significant effort due to the situation I had with this blank.........but the gouge handled it well.
249570 I proceeded to shape the outside of the bowl blank.......
249571 then began the roughout on the inside...... 249572249573249574
I sharpened the gouge once on the outside ...it really was not dull, but this wood was really hard and with the broken part, I had a lot of cutting down to do, and I wanted to adjust the wing length on it from my initial grind on that one end..........I ended up putting a 40 degree bevel on the nose and swept the wings back just a little to get it cutting where I wanted it.......pretty sweet from that point on.
For the inside I also just touched it up once......again, not dull by any means and was still giving me fairly nice curlees........for the quality of the surface left I wanted a freshly sharpened edge.
This bowl is roughed out at about 10.5 inches wide and just slightly over 1 inch thick, except at the very bottom which is about 1.5 inches thick.
The gouge........first off...I am lovin' this camlock handle.......I am impressed with it and it was about 30 degrees here this afternoon and I just have a small heater in the shop......never got cold hands!!! :)
The gouge itself.........I am impressed with it.........only my first turning with it, and if comparing to what I would normally use on this piece........my pinnacle 5/8" cryogenic gouge........the edge definitely lasts a good bit longer........compared to my Thompson gouge.........I cannot say yet............I will do some comparison cutting on the same piece of wood with the two and then see how it stacks up.......I want to be fair and use them both on the same wood and see how they wear on the very same piece.
I have some boxes I need to do & get done, and a couple other things, but since this was the beginning of a review on the bowl gouge, I thought it best to actually use it to do a bowl! ;)
That is it for the moment.......
This was wet......had been on the ground for about 6 months and was heavy........the blank weighed in at approx. 35-40 1bs [my estimate] and was not totally circular, but was about 12" oblong, just a bit.....and it came apart on me in the initial going.
249568 249569 I used the 1/2" bowl gouge for everything......roughing and shaping the tenon for the chuck ............that was a significant effort due to the situation I had with this blank.........but the gouge handled it well.
249570 I proceeded to shape the outside of the bowl blank.......
249571 then began the roughout on the inside...... 249572249573249574
I sharpened the gouge once on the outside ...it really was not dull, but this wood was really hard and with the broken part, I had a lot of cutting down to do, and I wanted to adjust the wing length on it from my initial grind on that one end..........I ended up putting a 40 degree bevel on the nose and swept the wings back just a little to get it cutting where I wanted it.......pretty sweet from that point on.
For the inside I also just touched it up once......again, not dull by any means and was still giving me fairly nice curlees........for the quality of the surface left I wanted a freshly sharpened edge.
This bowl is roughed out at about 10.5 inches wide and just slightly over 1 inch thick, except at the very bottom which is about 1.5 inches thick.
The gouge........first off...I am lovin' this camlock handle.......I am impressed with it and it was about 30 degrees here this afternoon and I just have a small heater in the shop......never got cold hands!!! :)
The gouge itself.........I am impressed with it.........only my first turning with it, and if comparing to what I would normally use on this piece........my pinnacle 5/8" cryogenic gouge........the edge definitely lasts a good bit longer........compared to my Thompson gouge.........I cannot say yet............I will do some comparison cutting on the same piece of wood with the two and then see how it stacks up.......I want to be fair and use them both on the same wood and see how they wear on the very same piece.
I have some boxes I need to do & get done, and a couple other things, but since this was the beginning of a review on the bowl gouge, I thought it best to actually use it to do a bowl! ;)
That is it for the moment.......