I have been turning for about 1 year. I am just now deciding I have been sanding too much and need to improve my finishing cuts and scrapes.
Yesterday I turned a dry piece of elm into a hollow form shape on the outside. It was chucked with a woodworm screw and tail stock support. I had a lot of end grain torn grain and tried to improve this before I ever turned the piece around to work on the inside. The chuck was never moved/changed.
Using fine cuts with a 3/8 inch gouge, scrapes with the same gouge and with a negative rake scraper I still could not get rid of the torn grain. I seem to have a very fine vibration on the piece of wood- almost like it is out of round. The tools get a very slight bounce off of the wood. Why would this happen?
I just cut the wood so it is round. The wood is dry so I do not think it is moving. The piece is not even close too being to big for the lathe. I do not feel a vibration off of the lathe itself. Again, I did not rechuck.
Kyle
Yesterday I turned a dry piece of elm into a hollow form shape on the outside. It was chucked with a woodworm screw and tail stock support. I had a lot of end grain torn grain and tried to improve this before I ever turned the piece around to work on the inside. The chuck was never moved/changed.
Using fine cuts with a 3/8 inch gouge, scrapes with the same gouge and with a negative rake scraper I still could not get rid of the torn grain. I seem to have a very fine vibration on the piece of wood- almost like it is out of round. The tools get a very slight bounce off of the wood. Why would this happen?
I just cut the wood so it is round. The wood is dry so I do not think it is moving. The piece is not even close too being to big for the lathe. I do not feel a vibration off of the lathe itself. Again, I did not rechuck.
Kyle