What type of steel might work best for a free hand hollowing tool with roughly a 36" shank?
So I've made a handle and actually an entire tool with swan neck with a 36" bar and a 50" handle and it works but the chatters not great I was able to make roughly a 6" tall 4" wide bowl with it at its maximum overhang with a relatively thin wall..can't find the photo of the turning on my new phone but I was able to recover a photo of the tool. The shank is 1" 1\8th diameter rod mild steel with a maybe 10" long swan neck made from stainless I bent. Now there's a man named Benjamin pnalitzer(I think) who has made some 3' and apparently 4' forms with what looks like a similar tool but with the chatter I saw, roughly 1\5" flex in my bar I can't imagine just how.
Now I've seen I think Steve sinners set up and such and that suggested one needs a 2.25" bar diameter but my experience and seeing Benjamin's work and tool I know this is not likely the case so I have a suspicions that steel type is a factor, and after seeing some of ed moulthrops tools I feel like I may just be missing something small.
Photos of Benjamin and then my tool. I hollowed that blank on the lathe with that tool with the rest in its photographed location.
So I've made a handle and actually an entire tool with swan neck with a 36" bar and a 50" handle and it works but the chatters not great I was able to make roughly a 6" tall 4" wide bowl with it at its maximum overhang with a relatively thin wall..can't find the photo of the turning on my new phone but I was able to recover a photo of the tool. The shank is 1" 1\8th diameter rod mild steel with a maybe 10" long swan neck made from stainless I bent. Now there's a man named Benjamin pnalitzer(I think) who has made some 3' and apparently 4' forms with what looks like a similar tool but with the chatter I saw, roughly 1\5" flex in my bar I can't imagine just how.
Now I've seen I think Steve sinners set up and such and that suggested one needs a 2.25" bar diameter but my experience and seeing Benjamin's work and tool I know this is not likely the case so I have a suspicions that steel type is a factor, and after seeing some of ed moulthrops tools I feel like I may just be missing something small.
Photos of Benjamin and then my tool. I hollowed that blank on the lathe with that tool with the rest in its photographed location.