How To Use A Wood Lathe Gouge

They are square not round.

How to use a wood lathe gouge. Look at the flat outside surface of a fresh bowl blank on the lathe. 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. A woodturning scraper scrapes using a burr so it should be kept very sharp to work well.

Dont let the name roughing gouge mislead you. 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. Each time the tool and the wood.

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. 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. Use the left hand to guide the tool by holding your hand over the tool near the blade edge.

Using a bowl gouge make simple clean straight cuts across the face of the bowl blank. Once thats done screw the face plate into the live head of your wood lathe. Once center has been established take the faceplate center and put it over the blanks center and screw it down with wood screws by making sure that at least seven threads are screwed into the wood.

It should not be used for faceplate work such as turning a bowl. 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. This tool is incredibly versatile and capable of doing very fine work.

Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine. To get rid of the center material you should be making very gradual cuts. Scrapers are used to remove the marks left by your bowl gouge.