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Cleaning up after hollowing

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Cleaning up after hollowing

#1

Cleaning up after hollowing

john lucas

I was making some Beads of Courage boxes. I still hollow this kind mostly with a bowl gouge because I'm just better with it. I hollowed under the lip with a bent tool similar to John Jordan's with a 3/16" HSS cutter. To clean everything up I use 2 Hunter tools. A #5 which I think he is calling a Badger now. This is a straight tool and lets me cut the bottom and part of the sides with a bevel rubbing cut that is extremely clean.

Then I used what he calls a Badger #5 swan neck to clean up the upper sides and under the lip. This tool will do a bevel rubbing cut up the sides and up part of the undercut. Then it turns into a shear scraping cut to get out toward the lip. Both are very clean cuts.

Here are a couple of photos showing the cuts before any sanding. It's hard to really see how clean they are because you can't get the light in there.




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Dave Delo

The cut quality is excellent John. I'm just as impressed with the form that highlights those 3 piths. Couldn't have drawn it up any better in CAD. Sweet!

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David Smith

Beautiful cuts John. How do you present the Hunter tools to get it to rub on the bevel? I had a chance to try the straight one when I was in California. The carbide blade was presented straight at the center line so it just cut right in and was hard for me to control. So I was just curious about how the tools are presented. Thanks.

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#4

I have several youtube videos that show *LINK*

john lucas

David I have made several videos that show the 3 ways I use the tools. One is as a scraper, one as a shear scraper and one as bevel rubbing. To find them go to www.youtube.com and then type in john60lucas/Hunter Below will be a link to first one that started the whole thing.

what started the whole thing was Mike came out with the #4 which is a straight bar with the cutter mounted flat. I could see immediately that presenting this to the work with the cutter up was a disaster. However tilted to one side and riding the bevel it made an incredibly clean cut. Later he came out with the Hercules and Osprey that have the cutter mounted at a 30 degree downward angle. That tool works great with the cutter pointed up but also works just like a bowl gouge when you rotate the tool to the side and do a push cut just like a bowl gouge.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfp2kvhH6Mo&t=5s

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Here's the tool

john lucas

More or less copied the original Sorby texturing tool. I want to be able to instantly switch back and forth.


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#6

Thank you

David Smith

Thanks for the links. I haven't made it through all your videos yet but I'm working on it.

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#7

Re: Thank you

John C Lucas

Maybe there should be some kind of reward for anyone who has seen them all