McNaughton center "any used for sale"

Re: McNaughton center "any used for sale"

Bill Hale / The Wood Spinner

>John

I have one and don't like it much. I do use the handle for other tools. If you have a handle possibly we can make a deal.

If you don't have a handle let me know what you will pay and possibly we can still deal.

Drop me an E-Mail

Good turning and be safe

Bill

Re: McNaughton center "any used for sale"

Mark Kauder, Phenix City, AL

>Try Gary Evans - he had one for sale at the Southern State Woodturning Symposium this last weekend, but I do not know if he sold it or not.

Mark

Re: McNaughton center "any used for sale"

Gary Evans

>Sorry, it sold at the symposium.

Just as an added note, I was talking to a guy who has three of the major coring systems. He likes his McNaughton the best because you are not limited to cutting a single profile. Evidently, it will allow you to change the angle of penetration as you cut in order to extract slightly different shaped cores.

GE

Re: McNaughton center "any used for sale"

Joe Fleming

>All,

All three comercial systems (McNaughton, Oneway and Woodcut) have blades are are arcs from a circle. The geometry of the blades cannot be anything else because the steel cannot go down into the wood and then change direction. In other words, no matter what blade entry angle you select, the kerf will be a portion of a circle.

All three systems allow the user to take hemispherical cores. All three also allow you to vary the entry point and the entry angle to take taller deeper cores, or wider flatter cores.

Of the three systems, the Wooduct system offers the least variability in this regard. The McNaughton offers the most variability in this regard.

Some people can make the tools cut noncircular cuts, but they do it by making part or all of the kerf wider and starting the blades from different points. In any case, you are making the core smaller to accomplish this. In other words, you waste wood. If you want a bowl that does not have a circular profile, it is much easier to cut the circular form with the coring tool, then reshape the core with a gouge. You still waste wood, but the cuts are easier to make and are much cleaner.

Joe Fleming - San Diego