This video demonstrates how to turn a honey dipper on a lathe. This is a great project for someone new to woodturning. It is also a fun project for an experienced turner.
Great video, liked & subscribed! Your videos are really easy to follow and informative. At 4.08 you stop the piece and I noticed lots of little ripples in the wood, I get this whenever I turn a piece, but struggle to smooth them out. Any ideas why? Thanks. Mike
The roughing gouge will leave the ripples when you make an aggressive cut. You can make a very light pass with a sharp rouging gouge to eliminate this but I don't bother because when you move to the spindle gouge it will eliminate the ripples as you see in the video. Sanding will further remove any imperfections.
You must start with a relatively course grade of sandpaper in order to remove tool marks from the wood. You then progressively use finer grit paper in order to achieve a smooth fine finish. Each grit of sandpaper removes imperfections imposed by the courser grit that preceded it. You must do this one step at a time. You cannot start with a course grit and jump right to a very fine grit and expect to get a smooth finish without blemishes.
