wizer
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Had a little play with the Rolly Munro tool today. Things went quite well compared to my first attempt at hollowing. It was the only Ash log in the pile that was free from worm holes.
I'd roughed it down on Sunday, so I just needed to do the shaping and hollowing today. Mark Hancock gave me some good tips for setting the tool up and I managed to get it cutting straight away.
I got a bit carried away and ended up going through the side....
oops. I decided to cut it in half to see how I did:
Not too bad really. It's about 5mm at the thickest part, tapering down to 1mm where it cracked. The bottom is only that chunky because I parted it off further back than I would it it'd turned out well.
During turning i played about with the depth settings and was surprised how fine a finish you can get. Should I use a different tool to get the final finish on the inside?
I did have a couple of problems. Firstly the lathe height. I need it to be a least 2 inches higher and I'd say more for comfort. Might have to look into raising it. Also, towards the end I had a lot of problems with the tool being chucked about. It felt like the work had gone out of true? Was this just because it was flexing as it got thinner?
I'd roughed it down on Sunday, so I just needed to do the shaping and hollowing today. Mark Hancock gave me some good tips for setting the tool up and I managed to get it cutting straight away.
I got a bit carried away and ended up going through the side....
oops. I decided to cut it in half to see how I did:
Not too bad really. It's about 5mm at the thickest part, tapering down to 1mm where it cracked. The bottom is only that chunky because I parted it off further back than I would it it'd turned out well.
During turning i played about with the depth settings and was surprised how fine a finish you can get. Should I use a different tool to get the final finish on the inside?
I did have a couple of problems. Firstly the lathe height. I need it to be a least 2 inches higher and I'd say more for comfort. Might have to look into raising it. Also, towards the end I had a lot of problems with the tool being chucked about. It felt like the work had gone out of true? Was this just because it was flexing as it got thinner?