How To Use A Wood Lathe Gouge

They are square not round.

How to use a wood lathe gouge. Rotate the bowl gouge to the side slightly so the side of the cutting edge engages the wood. So here is me us. You should start hollowing the bowl from center to outside.

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. 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. 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.

To successfully sharpen your wood lathe tools youre going to need some additional tools. Scrapers are used to remove the marks left by your bowl gouge. 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.

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. Many of his ladderback and Windsor chair spindles can be shaped from beginning to end with the roughing 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.

This tool is incredibly versatile and capable of doing very fine work. It should not be used for faceplate work such as turning a bowl. An angle finder would be a good investment so that you can verify the angles to be sharpened.

A roughing gouge is used in spindle work such as turning a table leg to remove a blanks square corners or cut a cylinder or taper. Look at the flat outside surface of a fresh bowl blank on the lathe. Rest your little finger and the back of your palm on the tool rest located in the center of your wood lathe machine.