Tom Sweeney
08-17-2003, 10:34 PM
Hey everyone,
I got my lathe back together from an incident a few days ago.
I turned my 1st 2 pieces from "green wood" over the weekend
The first I'm pretty sure was Oak & I think the second was some kind of willow tree. I got pretty serious tearout on both pieces, especially the end grain.
They were both pretty open grained woods.
So is tearout more of a problem with green wood than already dry wood or is it just my same old problem of tools not being sharp enough?
No I haven't bought a wolverine jig yet - but I am getting better at freehand sharpening - I actually was able to get some nice fluffy shavings flying off at one point- but there was still tearout right after that.
Any thoughts??
I got my lathe back together from an incident a few days ago.
I turned my 1st 2 pieces from "green wood" over the weekend
The first I'm pretty sure was Oak & I think the second was some kind of willow tree. I got pretty serious tearout on both pieces, especially the end grain.
They were both pretty open grained woods.
So is tearout more of a problem with green wood than already dry wood or is it just my same old problem of tools not being sharp enough?
No I haven't bought a wolverine jig yet - but I am getting better at freehand sharpening - I actually was able to get some nice fluffy shavings flying off at one point- but there was still tearout right after that.
Any thoughts??