How to Use Your RIDGID Wood Lathe (continued)
Making Long Taper Cuts
Long taper cuts are made like long con- vex cuts, with the skew or gouge. How- ever, the angle between the cutting edge and handle is kept constant during the entire cut. The handle is not swung around. Always cut downhill. Do not cut too deeply at the center of the taper.
How To Handle Spindle Turnings
Plotting The Shape
Once the basic cuts have been mastered, you are ready to turn out finished work. The first step is to prepare a plan for the proposed turning. This can be laid out on a suitable sheet of paper - and should be to full size. Next, prepare the turning stock by squaring it up to the size of the largest square or round section in your plan. The stock can be cut to the exact length of the proposed turning; but, in most cases, it is best to leave the stock a little long at one or both ends to allow for trimming.
Mount the stock in the lathe, and rough it off to a maximum size cylinder. Now project your plan onto the turning by marking the various critical dimensions along the length of the spindle in pencil. These dimensions can be laid out with an ordinary ruler - or by using a template.
Make the pencil marks about
After marking, use the parting tool to make sizing cuts at all of the important shoulders. When learning, you will find it best to make many sizing cuts to accu- rately plot the various diameters; but experienced workers can do with a few such cuts at the important shoulders. Plan each sizing cut so that it is in waste stock; and make each deep enough so that there will be just enough wood left under the cut for the finishing process. Once the sizing cuts have been run in,
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Tenon
NOTE: All Measurements In Inches
Sizing Cuts
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