End grain Black Palmira

[alan morrison]

I used 2 angle grinders to turn this blank.
One with a flap disc and the other with a 60 grit sanding pad.
Easy as!

 

[Curly]

Looks good but how do you rub the bevel when turning?

Pete

 

[ValleyBoy]

Brilliant!

Gouge selection, grinding profiles and sharpening techniques are such a frequent and big topic on these forums, then you come along with this.

Love it.

Cheers
Ash

 

[alan morrison]

Looks good but how do you rub the bevel when turning?

Pete

Pete, I followed George Valentine's method which he wrote about on IAP.

Blowouts...??? my solution...!

Hi peoples, This is not a new issue, infact I have created another thread on the subject, some years ago and spoke about it more times that I can count since however, I never expanded and exemplified/demonstrated the issue properly here on IAP so, what am I talking about, the "Flap disc...

www.penturners.org

 

[Curly]

I remember George and hope he is okay, not having heard from him in years. I have a number of pen blanks he was selling along with some nice bowl and peppermill blanks of olive. I was just fooling with you about rubbing the bevel as that is how one uses gouges and skews to control the tool. Guess the joke wasn't all that good. Certainly not as good as your segmented blank.

Pete

 

[flexi]

If it works it works... Well done mate, hopefully it wasn't too much cleaning up afterwards!!

 

[Adal6]

Very nice blank Alan

 

[alan morrison]

I remember George and hope he is okay, not having heard from him in years. I have a number of pen blanks he was selling along with some nice bowl and peppermill blanks of olive. I was just fooling with you about rubbing the bevel as that is how one uses gouges and skews to control the tool. Guess the joke wasn't all that good. Certainly not as good as your segmented blank.

Pete

I still have some Australian timbers that I got from George before Brexit messed everything up.
And BTW I have never rubbed my bevel as I started with carbide tools before I would graduate to gouges and skews. ( I got your joke )
I recently purchased some 'proper ' woodturning tools but havent put my hand in my pocket for a sharpening system yet.

 

[alan morrison]

If it works it works... Well done mate, hopefully it wasn't too much cleaning up afterwards!!

I put on the dust extractor and never saw a thing! Clean up was negligible!

 

[Bill Mooney]

I’m afraid that’s mind boggling to me Alan. No doubt it’s good though.

 

[howsitwork?]

Different Alan , VERY different.

Ive not gone down carbide route yet although I have indulged in some Simon Hope deep hollowing tools