How To Use A Wood Lathe Gouge

A good black felt pen to color in the tip of your turning chisels to see where the grinding wheel makes contact with the gouge.

How to use a wood lathe gouge. Using a bowl gouge make simple clean straight cuts across the face of the bowl blank. They are square not round. A bowl gouge is often confused with a roughing gouge.

An angle finder would be a good investment so that you can verify the angles to be sharpened. In the spindle turning process the lathes tool normally rests in a position close to the wood stock so that it can support. To get rid of the center material you should be making very gradual cuts.

Each time the tool and the wood. This tool is incredibly versatile and capable of doing very fine work. A woodturning scraper scrapes using a burr so it should be kept very sharp to work well.

During these straight cuts look closely at the tip of the bowl gouge. As you use your roughing gouge to turn it round you start by hitting each of the 4 edges and slowly work your way down to a round turning blank. It turns out I have been using my tools not correctly but thanks to the Dublin Woodturners Guild I received some tips and happy to share.

The lathe tool rest needs to be positioned relatively close to the wood bowl blank to give yourself a leverage advantage with the bowl gouge handle. Roughing gouges turn stock from the usual square shape to round shape while the spindle gauge creates coves even beads as well as other details. Look at the flat outside surface of a fresh bowl blank on the lathe.

Mainly used to turn the spindles which involve stocks longer than its width and is placed in the lathe parallel to the lathes turning axis. To successfully sharpen your wood lathe tools youre going to need some additional tools. Scrapers are used to remove the marks left by your bowl gouge.