How To Turn A Bowl With Carbide Tools

Lets turn a small coin or key bowl from lemonwood using carbide toolsIf you like this video please subscribe.

How to turn a bowl with carbide tools. The carbide rougher with the square insert should be the first carbide wood turning tool that you use on a brand new project. Move the tool from side to side keeping it level and remove all the edges until the blank is round. Roughing gouges are mainly for turning cylinders when the grain goes with bed of the lathe.

For tools I use the Taste of Carbide combo from my website. I may do a video about carbide turning in the future but traditional tools render the best results when turning bowls. As the name indicates it roughs out a square wooden project to round.

At the end of the day youll have a bowl to take home. Parting tools act as a slicing tool to remove a turning piece from the chuck or faceplate. Youll learn about stock selection chucking and different bowl finishes.

We will guide you step by step through the process of turning your own bowl on the lathe with Rocklers easy-to-use carbide turning tools. Ive got lots more ideas comingMy tools cam. Once the edges are knocked off and the blanks are round move the tool rest closer.

I recently bought a lathe and this is my third time turning a bowl except Im using carbide chisels. Acclaimed woodturner Richard Raffan demonstrates how he turns a simple cherry bowl step-by-step. Ready for your wood bowl adventure.

The carbide insert tool should be at center and parallel to the ground. At the end of the day youll have a bowl to take home. The task of roughing a blank revealed a major difference in how a square carbide roughing tool works compared to a roughing gouge.