RIDGID WL1200LS1 manual Cutting Coves Concaves, Pencil Marks, Making Long Convex Cuts

Cutting Coves (Concaves)	to keep the extreme point of gouge doing
This is the most difficult single cut to mas-	the cutting from start to finish. Reverse
ter - but one of the most important in good	movements to cut the opposite side.
wood turning. First, use pencil marks to	Coves also can be scraped to finish,
indicate the edges. Then, rough it out - to	using the round nose chisel or a rattail file
within about 1/8-in. of the desired finish	- but these methods do not generally pro-
surface - by scraping with the gouge or	duce perfectly curved coves.
round nose chisel. If the cove is to be very			Pencil Marks
wide, sizing cuts can be made to plot the
roughing out. Once it is roughed out, the
cove can be finished in two cuts - one
from each side to the bottom center.
At the start of either cut, gouge is held
with handle high and the two sides of		1
blade held between the thumb and fore-
finger of tool-rest hand, just behind the	2	3		4
bevel.Position the fingers ready to roll the

blade into cove. Hold blade so that bevel
is at a 90° angle to the work axis, with
point touching the pencil line and pointed
into work axis.	Cutting Coves
From this start, depress point slightly to
start cut, then continue to move point
down in an arc toward the bottom center
of cove-at the same time rolling chisel uni-
formly so that, at the end of the cut, it will
be flat at bottom of the cove. The object is
Making Long Convex Cuts

First turn work down to approximate size, using sizing cuts (as required) to deter- mine various diameters. Finish cut can then be made with either skew or gouge.

If the skew is used, the principles of the operation are the same as those employed in cutting a bead - except that curve is longer and may be irregular. Use the extreme heel throughout - start at longer end of curve (if curve is irregular) and progress toward steeper end. If gouge is used, make cut in the same direction. Start with the handle well back of point-swinging handle in the direction of

tool travel to overtake the point, if neces- sary, when the steep part of the curve is reached. Object is to keep extreme point during the cutting throughout - with bevel as tangent to curve as possible.

Chisel Inclined

in Direction of Cut

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