How To Use A Wood Lathe Gouge

During these straight cuts look closely at the tip of the bowl gouge.

How to use a wood lathe gouge. The tool meets the wood just below the centerline of the blank and you hold it at a downward angle the tool is lower than the handle. So here is me us. You should start hollowing the bowl from center to outside.

Use the left hand to guide the tool by holding your hand over the tool near the blade edge. A bowl gouge is often confused with a roughing gouge. So at the start your tool is hitting wood air wood air wood air wood air.

Scrapers are used to remove the marks left by your bowl gouge. A woodturning scraper scrapes using a burr so it should be kept very sharp to work well. Do not use any other types of screws than wood screws.

Let the lathe turn slowly and your bowl starts rotation. This tool is incredibly versatile and capable of doing very fine work. Observe how much material is coming off the tip.

It should not be used for faceplate work such as turning a bowl. 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. Using a bowl gouge make simple clean straight cuts across the face of the bowl blank.

Turn the lathe back on and hold the paper lightly against the wood moving it back and forth to prevent removing too much wood from one area of. 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. They are square not round.