Beginner Alert !!!!!

[dicklaxt1]

I just read where you should not use a roughing out gouge for face plate turning,eg: bowls, it should be used for making round blanks out of square blanks(spindle work). I guess thats why my wrist is still sore and why I didn't like that big gouge. I don't know why but thats what it said.

The profile is straight across half moon and 1 1/4" wide takes quite a bite and is not forgiving either.

dick

[SteveF]

Its because with faceplate turning you are cutting end-grain twice every revolution and the roughing gouge will tend to catch on the endgrain. Really nasty catches, actually.

The two best ways I know of to true up a faceplate blank is to use either a round nose scraper (easiest) or a bowl gouge. If you use the bowl gouge, you do not want to present it to the stock like you normally would with a roughing gouge, but rather from the end of the blank with the tool shaft parallel to the lathe bed. It takes practise...

Steve

[dicklaxt1]

Maybe thats what made my wrist sore LOL.................whatever, a lesson learned. I guess that big guy stays on the shelf.........well maybe not, can it be used for truing up a newly mounted blank between centers??That would be a "flitch". How about that one Limey?

[Steven Wilson]

I use my big roughing gouge for making pens. I get it almost shaped and then finish with the skew. I like the roughing gouge.