Hi all
Got my first lathe this week (Jet 1014) and I am totally hooked and totally frustrated!
I have some questions which I would really be grateful if anyone can help with.
1. Chatter - When I am roughing out to get a cylinder, why does the piece keep chattering the gouge back at me really hard? It ends up chattering back and forth much more than in videos I have watched. Am I trying to take off too much, not sharp enough, too high, too low, too close?
2. Sharpening - all the videos I have seen on sharpening seem to use bench grinders, but replacing the wheel with something finer. I have a Scheppach sharpening system like this will it be ok for sharpening turning tools, or do I need something coarser?
3. Tools - I already had some gouges I inherited which have a small handle, same size as a normal bevel chisel. I also bought some cheap Axminster gouges which turned out to have much longer blades and handles than I was expecting. I can't get anything lilke as good results with the new long ones, but that may be because they need better sharpening than I have managed. Should I be using the longer gouges - I can't find anyone selling shorter ones..
Sorry for all the questions.
Got my first lathe this week (Jet 1014) and I am totally hooked and totally frustrated!
I have some questions which I would really be grateful if anyone can help with.
1. Chatter - When I am roughing out to get a cylinder, why does the piece keep chattering the gouge back at me really hard? It ends up chattering back and forth much more than in videos I have watched. Am I trying to take off too much, not sharp enough, too high, too low, too close?
2. Sharpening - all the videos I have seen on sharpening seem to use bench grinders, but replacing the wheel with something finer. I have a Scheppach sharpening system like this will it be ok for sharpening turning tools, or do I need something coarser?
3. Tools - I already had some gouges I inherited which have a small handle, same size as a normal bevel chisel. I also bought some cheap Axminster gouges which turned out to have much longer blades and handles than I was expecting. I can't get anything lilke as good results with the new long ones, but that may be because they need better sharpening than I have managed. Should I be using the longer gouges - I can't find anyone selling shorter ones..
Sorry for all the questions.