How To Turn A Bowl With Carbide Tools

Once the edges are knocked off and the blanks are round move the tool rest closer.

How to turn a bowl with carbide tools. I recently bought a lathe and this is my third time turning a bowl except Im using carbide chisels. And scrapers can be used just about any where. Youll learn about stock selection chucking and different bowl finishes.

I found that for me being a newbie these chisels are t. As the name indicates it roughs out a square wooden project to round. Lets turn a small coin or key bowl from lemonwood using carbide toolsIf you like this video please subscribe.

Ive got lots more ideas comingMy tools cam. At the end of the day youll have a bowl to take home. Roughing gouges are mainly for turning cylinders when the grain goes with bed of the lathe.

With a firm grip on the tool place it on the toolrest and advance it until it contacts the wood. Ill turn the entire pen with just this one tool. To cut with a gouge you drop the handle so the bevel contacts the wood then raise the handle until the edge begins to take a shaving.

At the end of the day youll have a bowl to take home. For tools I use the Taste of Carbide combo from my website. The carbide rougher with the square insert should be the first carbide wood turning tool that you use on a brand new project.

Ready for your wood bowl adventure. I may do a video about carbide turning in the future but traditional tools render the best results when turning bowls. Usually a piece of 12 steel round or square notched out in the end to accept a small square round or triangular carbide cutter that is screwed onto the steel shaft and the far side of the shaft has a long wood handle.