Grizzly H8259 owner manual Selecting Turning Tools, Gouge

Selecting Turning

Tools

Lathe tools come in a variety of shapes and sizes and usually fall into five major categories.

•Gouges—Mainly used for rough cutting, detail cutting, and cove profiles. The rough gouge is a hollow, double-ground tool with a round nose, and the detail gouge is a hol- low, double-ground tool with either a round or pointed nose. Figure 19 shows an example of a gouge.

Figure 19. Gouge.

•Skew Chisel—A very versatile tool that can be used for planing, squaring, V-cutting, beading, and parting off. The skew chisel is flat, double-ground with one side higher than the other (usually at an angle of 20- 40˚). Figure 20 shows an example of a skew chisel.

Figure 20. Skew chisel.

•Scrapers—Mainly used where access for other tools is limited, such as hollowing oper- ations. This is a flat, double-ground tool that comes in a variety of profiles (Round Nose, Spear Point, Square Nose, etc.) to match many different contours. Figure 21 shows an example of a round nose scraper.

Figure 21. Round nose scraper.

•Parting Tools—Used for sizing and cut- ting off work. This is a flat tool with a sharp pointed nose that may be single- or double- ground. Figure 22 shows an example of a parting tool.

Figure 22. Parting tool.

•Specialty Tools—These are the unique, special function tools to aid in hollowing, bowl making, cutting profiles, etc. The Swan Neck Hollowing Tool shown on Page 23 is a good example of a specialty tool.

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