The flute up shear cut - cut with the leading edge of the wing. It is an advanced cut.
The leading edge of the wing combines a high shear angle and around a 40 degree bevel angle.
Leaves a really smooth surface inside a bowl.
There is a reason every instructor teaching beginners says keep the flute between 9 o’clock and 11:30 or between 3 o’clock and 1:30.
Liam O’Neil taught me this cut in 1995 and David Ellsworth covered it in the class I took with him in 1996.
David showed me more uses of this cut.
It’s an easy cut to master with instruction. Hard to impossible to teach it to yourself.
People who try it on their own call it the death cut because it is easy to get horrible catches using trial and error.
Peopl that get good instruction call it a shear cut.
One great thing about this cut is it can be used starting at the rim on an interrupted cut natural edge bowl
On a flat rim bowl just about impossible to start at the rim so I roll into the flute up cut an inch below the rim.
I like the Ellsworth grind for this cut. This is probably a Henry Taylor gouge. A Jamieson will look similar from this angle.
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Here I start to cut a NE bowl rim to thickness. I feel for the edge and make a cut.
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One cool thing is on an open bowl shape you can see both the outside and inside wall you just cut.
This lets you get a really even wall visually down to the lower rim
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