Oneway easy core

[Ed Jarvis]

Has any one used the oneway easy core system?

Ed

 

[Hugh]

Do a search and I expect you will find many Oneway Easy Core discussions.

 

[Bill Blasic]

What do you need to know?

 

[Richard Coers]

Has any one used the oneway easy core system?

Ed

Odds are very good that there are users here.

 

[robo hippy]

Among the videos I plan to do, I will cover the coring systems. As far as the Oneway system goes, on the plus side, it is rock solid, all the way to the full extension of the largest blade. On the minus side, in my opinion, worst ever cutting tip design ever. Many have switched to the cutter from Mike Hunter which is a bit spendy, but people prefer it. I did buy one of their tips years ago before they ground it down. I ground the end to about 65 degrees, and it was trapezoid in shape, so cutting edge and base were parallel, and sides tapered down to thinner, about the thickness of the support blade. Far better coring speeds, and cutting action, and you didn't have to remove the tip to sharpen it, just a quick touch up with the diamond hone. The "theory" with their cutter shape is that the spear tip breaks the fiber and the sides of the cutter cut the fibers away. To me, that doesn't even work in theory.... I prefer the McNaughton which has a "learning curve". I think the Woodcut system is better than the Oneway.

robo hippy

 

[Bill Blasic]

Well woodturners can agree to disagree. I have owned all three coring systems as I was going to do an article on them back when I was writing articles but someone beat m to it. My take is very different than Robo's above. First all three work, no doubt about that. The first system that I divorced myself from was the McNaughton, not only is the learning curve hard but in use the system is just harder to use. On the version I had one had to hold the blade up against the bottom of the trap and not doing that could make things real exciting really fast. Now it was just me but I never felt safe using it. Second that I sold was the Woodcut (this was the 2 blade version). Now there is nothing wrong with the Woodcut as it worked flawlessly and I used it a lot. What was the deal breaker for me was the fact that you are limited in what you can do size wise as it was connected to the tail stock and if I was super careful I could get 4 different sized bowls. If I had not already had the Oneway Easy Core System I would definitely still be using the Woodcut. And no there wasn't a lot of stuff out there about using the Oneway. I opted to spend some time with Chris Ramsey using the Easy Core and that was money well spent. Oneway should have had Chris do a demo on its use and they would have sold more than they have. Now I didn't have any trouble using the Oneway cutters a they worked and I even tried their carbide cutter which for me worked no better than the regular M4 cutter, yet with all that I was still was always on the defensive while using the system (just not to the extent of the McNaughton). Then Mike Hunter brought out Korpro cartridge (and yes it is expensive) and it is now a whole new ballgame in using the Oneway System. It cuts a 100% better than the Oneway cutters which takes off a lot of the stress when coring. And again I know it is expensive but it is worth every penny. Lastly it is said that the McNaughton is the most versatile but the Oneway is also more versatile than most think. Like the McNaughton the Oneway can deliver different bowl shapes in the same ways as the McNaughton. My take is the Oneway is the best of the three. If I were just starting out I would find turners with each system and I would ask them to let me try them out and then make my decision as after all, woodturners are woodturners and they can agree to disagree

 

[robo hippy]

If you get most of the way through the learning curve of the McNaughton, for me, I can remove the first core, I take the biggest one first, I can remove that first core in less time than it takes me to set up the other 2 systems. This does take a fair amount of practice, and as a production turner, it was essential for me. I did talk to Arizona Carbide about making custom carbide tips for the Oneway, and they said minimum 300 pieces. While they would sell, and they would work better than the standard tip that comes with the Oneway system, I just didn't want to take that on.... The thing about the Woodcut system, I almost never use the tailstock when turning bowls. Generally it is not needed, as long as you have done every thing correctly. If you watch Mike, Stuart, and Glenn turn, they never use the tailstock either, other than for turning the tenon off. Mostly it is another time saver thing. This is the advantage of the headstock design of the Vicmark lathes.

robo hippy

 

[Bill Blasic]

Arizona Carbide sells a carbide cutter for the Oneway system and like the carbide cutter from Oneway and for me it is the same as Oneway being it doesn't cut any better than the M42 one. Back when I went to see Chris this is how he sharpened
the Oneway cutter. Here is the burl that he cored 9 cores out of in a very short time even with me asking questions. Up until he got hurt he had started using the Hunter Korpro and he also was super pleased at how much easier it made the process. Once the initial setup is made it takes about 10 seconds to move to the next core until having to change the knives, that takes another minute. I have put the locking lever upgrade from Glen Lucas which makes the process even faster as for moving things around. I have posted here before a written outline from Chris as to his process so you may be able to hunt it down here on this site.