gouge

Yep to much information overload. I am so confused. So would some one please explain the difference between a spindle and bowl gouge. If I'm right it's the shape of the chisel V shape is spindle gouge and a U shape is a bowl gouge or is it just the grind? But a Irish grind on a small to...

Well, the boxes are all filled and I am ready to load the car for an evening demo. I have my 1 1/4" roughing gouge and 1 1/4" skew to show how to turn a pen:whistling::whistling::whistling:

Since discovering that cross cut blanks showed the wood in a different way I have been cutting nearly all my blanks this way or at 45 degrees, problem doing this is that I now seem to be spending more time sharpening my gouge than actually turning lol, some woods like Oak seem to dull the edge...

Up to now all my pen turning has been done with carbide tooling in the toolpost on my lathe. Profiling the blanks has proved troublesome as I have no idea how to use a wood gouge. All my attempts at using one has ended up in disaster. I am new to pen turning. I made a few out of interest and...

Hi there, Ive been having a few issues with torn grain and wondering if it's potentially down to tool choice. The first pen I made I used only a roughing gouge and the results were very good. I have mde a few more pens since and started with a skew then moved on to a spindle gouge, and on...

Nowt absolutely nowt went right today in the workshop I even made a mess of sharpening my gouge :sob: so I turned a pen just to prove to myself it's not all my fault... comments and thoughts are welcome... I can take it the wine is getting opened? Kevin

Well this is my first bowl, it can't be seen but the bottom is a bit thicker than i wanted. When it was chucked up it felt it was getting near to i chicken out. It's Elm and was really hard to machine, i had to give my gouge a touch up quite often though i may well be my use of the tool i have...

I could not get ten chisels to look at it, the first half took me an hour and a half. Then in my memory bank I remembered a Dutch Turner at a Turn Around hours from here while everyone did interesting things he made a masterpiece nearly three feet across of the angriest burl you could imagine ...

Damn second time of typing this all. I come from an engineering background and holding the cutting tool is a major no no. I started making pens last summer and then stopped because i found acrylic to tricky in that it would break out when drilling it or shatter when turning. Turning hard woods...