Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
delicate hollowing
john lucas
I wanted a challenge so I tried hollowing a 5/16" flat piece of wood. Takes a delicate touch for sure. I tried using my homemade round rod hollowing tools but they were grabby if you even remotely took anything bigger than a small bite. I switched to my home made Hunter hollower which worked great. I also tried the Hunter back hollower(that may not be the correct name) and it worked great as long as you took very light cuts.
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robo hippy
Interesting variation..... Dang it, now the wheels are spinning..... This could be a new way of segmenting...
robo hippy
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Doug Ladendorf
I don't think I have seen that exercise before. Very interesting and come thing that could be chucked up quickly.
Doug
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John K Jordan
You obviously don't have enough to do. Let's dig a drainage ditch.
JKJ
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Dennis in Southern Oregon
Well dang it, I hate to sound even dumber than I am, but which dimension in that picture is 5/16 inch and how did you mount the piece?
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john lucas
I got the dimension wrong. It's 1/4" thick. 4" long and 3" wide. I stuck it inbetween the jaws on my 4 jaw chuck so it was like turning a propeller.
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Bob Macgregor
How many RPM was that done at?
about this many
john lucas
I have no idea. I have an older Powermatic and it doesn't have direct readout. Not as fast as it will go but about 2/3 up the speed dial on the fast pulley so probably around 2000 rpm.
