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Dealing with End grain

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Dealing with End grain

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Dealing with End grain

jg

>Shortly after turning my first mallet (and that's all), I came into a whole bunch of pin oak trunks. So I took them home for practice wood.

I've been make cylinders out of them on the bandsaw then reducing those cylinders on the lathe for practice. When they get to the lathe they're about 12" long by 9" dia.

Tonight I started to make a deep, straight sided "bowl" from one. I'm having hell with the end grain. Catches, and generally a LOOONG tedious time.

I'm trying to keep my tools sharp but, being new, I having trouble there too. Can you guys give me hints, both technique and proper tools, for getting this endgrain dug out quickly?

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Barry Turner

>Hmmmmmmm.......you need to invest about $20 in a god book on turning, like Richard Raffan's "Turning Wood", or Keith Rowley's "A Foundation Course in Woodturning".

For starters, end grain does not hollow exceptionally well. Until you get some experience under your belt, I'd stick with side grain blanks. I wouldn't try hollowing to a depth of more than 3" or 4" inches either. A 9" blank is just too much for a beginner.

A good slow speed grinder and a Wolverine Grinding Jig can help you with the sharpening.

Good luck.

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Craig Daymon

>JG,

Go down a few messages and look for a post from me under a topic titled "faceplate question". There is a link to a very nice article about turning an end grain bowl. It's not a deep hollowing like you are attempting, but it might offer some useful hints. Either way, it's a pretty good article.

=Craig

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jg

>Thanks!

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jg

>I just looked at that page. Thank you! I gave me the HUGE hint I was missing!

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Re: Dealing with End grain *LINK*

sue correa

>Try using a hollowing tool from Behemoth Woodturning Tools. They are easy to use and will eliminate your problem with catches. You will be amazed at what a differance these tools make.


Behemoth Woodturning Tools

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John K Jordan

>>Behemoth Woodturning Tools

Try that link if you want to go to a tripod page with advertising popups, have a splash of tracking cookies added to your computer, and have a number of unknown active-x programs automatically run on your system. I hate intrusive web sites like that.

Sue, do you have a different like for these tools? (Also, are you associated with Behemoth?)

JKJ in East TN

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oops, "different link", not "like"

John K Jordan

>Sue, do you have a different link for these tools?

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