Hollowing tools?

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John Lucas

>Doug

I would look at the John Jordan tools. I built mine and they are similar to his and I love them. Im planning on buying one of his curved hollowing bars. Those are hard for me to make.


http://www.stubbylathe.com/

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Les Robison

>I bought the Don Pencil set with both the Scorpion and Stinger tools. The setup has all the adapters, arm brace and various boring bars and hook tools, plus the cutters. All I needed to do was sharpen the cutters to a more severe angle and the set up was "good to go". I have really enjoyed using them, although I have yet to use the Stinger set.


http://donpencil.com/

Re: Hollowing tools?

John Trant (Baltimore/WashDC)

>I have made my own tools, I have the Jamieson system and have Don Pencil's Scorpion tools. I use Don's tools the most and rarely use the Jamieson system.

John

Re: Hollowing tools?

Barry Irby

>Bought the Kel McNaughton Hollowing System from Woodcraft yesterday for half price. $100. This is the part that holds the hollowing tool "captive". It fits lathes up to an eight in swing or 16 inches in diameter. Does not include the cutters or the tool handle. Apparently they are closing them out. The store had three in stock and I bought number two.

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Arch

>I've made cheap and ugly arm brace hollowing tools that work ok if you can stand the laughs, jokes and sarcastic ribbing of friends. If you are cheap enough to make one, fasten it together loosely before final tightening.

Thread a 10 to 16 in.length of 3/4 CRS and screw it into a 45deg. 1/2 in. pipe coupling. Home depot or a DIY plumbing shop has pipe dies and will cut the threads. At the other end drill 45deg. and straight holes for inserted ground and sharpened lathe bits. Fix them with superglue or set screws. Roughen or dimple the bits for a better grip.

Screw a 4 to 6 in. 1/2 in. pipe nipple into the 45 deg. coupling. Before screwing another 45 deg. coupling to the nipple, turn a piece of hardwood with comfortable finger coves to fit between the couplings and glue it over the nipple. Screw another 1/2in. nipple into the coupling. About 8 to 12 in. long according to your forearm length.

The arm cup can be a padded half of appropriate size pvc pipe bolted to the nipple or the tool aided can be aided with a wooden paddle attached to the nipple and held between arm and body. A 'T' coupling and short nipple can be inserted between the CRS shaft and coupling to use as a top handle or one from a hand drill can be clamped on.

With a description like this I need a camera. Maybe not! Although this contraption does the job the vision might be too awful to post here.

Turn to Safety, Arch

Re: Hollowing tools?

Brad Vietje

>Doug,

Do you want to get into a stabilized system a la Jamieson, et. al., or are you interested in hollowing with hand-held tools, like Ellsworth ? There's a big difference in what tooling you will need and what skills you'll need to hone.

I have both, and tend to use hand-held tools for smaller work, for real difficult undercut work, and for HF's with smaller openings. I use the stabilized boring bar system for roughing out bigger pieces, and then put on the laser for accurate wall measures, but only for larger work.

One advantage of getting Ellsworth, or Ellsworth-style tools, is you can the justify a 3-day trip to Quakertown, PA to take one of David's classes !

Safe spinning,

Brad Vietje

Thetford, VT