How To Use A Wood Lathe Gouge

Hold the bowl gouge with both hands and start to begin slight cuts gradually.

How to use a wood lathe gouge. Let the lathe turn slowly and your bowl starts rotation. 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. Using a bowl gouge make simple clean straight cuts across the face of the bowl blank.

Many of his ladderback and Windsor chair spindles can be shaped from beginning to end with the roughing gouge. Look at the flat outside surface of a fresh bowl blank on the lathe. 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.

So here is me us. 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. A bowl gouge is often confused with a roughing gouge.

You should start hollowing the bowl from center to outside. They are square not round. 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.

To get rid of the center material you should be making very gradual cuts. Rotate the bowl gouge to the side slightly so the side of the cutting edge engages the wood. This tool is incredibly versatile and capable of doing very fine work.

A good black felt pen to color in the tip of your turning chisels to see where the grinding wheel makes contact with the gouge. Observe how much material is coming off the tip. In the spindle turning process the lathes tool normally rests in a position close to the wood stock so that it can support.