hollowing tools

[byron constantine]

I have been using hollowing tools like the ones by David Ellsworth and they are homemade. My problem is i can't seem to get a real smooth finish on
the inside walls. Would a tool like the Hunter do any better? I mount the
piece so the grain is cross grain not end grain. Any ideas?
Byron

[Steve Ott]

Bryon,

I have not used the Ellsworth tools, so I can not comment on them.
I have and use both the Hunter tool, and the Sorby Hollowmaster, for my finishing cuts when hollowing. The surface comes out pretty smooth and with a little sanding is done.

[Allen Neighbors]

With a good steady hand the Hunter tools are awesome!! Start sanding with 180-220. I have the #1, and am going to get a #3.

[Mike Golka]

I built myself a hollowing tool this weekend and it seems to work realy well. I am still very new to this turning gig but the vortex has a firm grip and I can't see it letting go any time soon. Maybe it's because I don't have somone telling me "you can't do that" that lets me make my own mistakes and stumble onto techniques that work realy well for me. Any way a bought a boring bar and HSS cutters from Busy Bee Tools, ground a rounded end on a cutter, put a handle on the boring bar an walla a hollowing tool is born. Tried it out on some green maple chucked end grain with a 1 1/2" starter hole an got some pretty good results. The cuts were very smooth. So for about $8.00----

Boring bar: http://busybeetools.ca/cgi-bin/picture10?&NETID=0859321029071600997&NTITEM=B168

Tool steel: http://busybeetools.ca/cgi-bin/picture10?&NETID=0859321029071600997&NTITEM=160110

[Chris Struttman]

Mike,

I was going to order the same thing that you ordered but Busy Bee does not ship outside of Canada. Any idea where I can get the same thing from inside the US for a similar price?

[Terry Stellman]

Try this link:
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRHM

Terry

[Bill Lantry]

Mike,

Can you post pics of this new-fangled hallowing tool... ;)

Thanks,

Bill

[Mike Vickery]

Mike,

I was going to order the same thing that you ordered but Busy Bee does not ship outside of Canada. Any idea where I can get the same thing from inside the US for a similar price?

I go tone from Grizzly a while ago
http://www.grizzly.com/products/12-Individual-Double-End-Boring-Bars/H2719

[Ben Gastfriend]

I'd also check out Packard, they have the bars of different sizes of tool HSS and boring bars.

[Mike Golka]

Bill, I'm away from home right now but can post some pics on the weekend when I get home. It's really quite simple, I just made a bushing out of some heavy wall pipe and use set screws to hold the boring bar into the bushing which is set into a piece of 1" steel tubing about 2' long for the handle. Crude but effective!

Mike