Here you see the scraper I found in a garage sale with a not-very-useful end and split handle, transformed into a very useful heavy scraper for deep hollowing. You see the handle turned using just a skew chisel.
Great job on recycling an old tool. I made something similar recently with 3/8" steel and it's a box making machine! I bet yours will work great for those tall tubes you make! Thanks for all you do 👍
I first watched you demonstrate handle making in your 70's-80's video tapes & I have followed you method ever since. Sets of chisels have identical handles which get muddled in shavings. Good old Ashley Iles still sell tools without handles, along with ferrules. Thank you.
Thanks again Richard. That tool looks just like a 3/8" bedan that I bought when I was a VERY new turner. Thought I needed it but never have really found a use for it. Is there any reason that I'm not thinking about that would prevent me from using my bedan as a deep box tool? It's quite a bit longer than the 3/4" square end scraper I use for small cross grain boxes.
The bedan is my preferred tool for hollowing cylinders. Used narrow side down, the left corner is very slightly sharper than on a standard scraper and you don't have to be quite so precise positioning the rest height. With standard scrapers the rest needs to be on, or only a fraction below, centre height, so only the top left side of the tool can contact the wood.
A bed extension makes tool handles possible. A dead accurate talicentre isn't essential for handles, so you could always construct a timber extension if you can't buy one.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Well, I could buy one, but I'm more focused on upgrading the lathe. I've seen some folks make timber extensions, which may be just the thing I should do. Thank you!
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning sorta related question... Do you think it would be possible to use a steady rest at the end of a 20" lathe with the tailstock removed to turn something longer than 20"? Just curious if it's possible, and I imagine you have seen it all when it comes to lathe work.
@@naturaIIydifferent I think your main problem would be rigging up a tool rest for turning the portion of the blank projecting beyond the steady rest and end of the lathe bed. Might as well construct a bed extension....
Very nice. Look forward to seeing it in use on a tall tube-form. Sock and Sock, the next generation as always performed splendidly. Queensland Rosewood, I know it is used in furniture and building, but I thought that the zig-zag grain made it hard to turn? Or is that a different wood? (And I only know this from hearsay.) Thanks for another excellent, entertaining and educational video.
Hi Richard, another great video thanks! Please keep the content flowing, there's so much we can learn for a master turner such as you. Also, would it be possible for you to do a video or two on the sharpening tools you use and why: CBN wheels versus stone wheels, the sorts of grits you sharpen to, grinding machines versus whetstone Tormek machines, and the best types of sharpening jigs etc for novice turners? Much appreciated. Cheers
All the tools I use are HSS and used straight off an 80-grit CBN wheel. I don't use jigs because I never found one that enables me to produce the combination of bevel and edge I want but can achieve sharpening freehand. I keep my Tormek for sharpening knives, plane blades, and joinery chisels. There are a few sharpening videos in the Tools and Sharpening Playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLBAvwOB0lJTS-QyorpwWhSowzY9XZR5u_
Hmm, on the butt end, a 3/8 hole might be useful for secure registration on a peg of a wall rack. By the way, it's not a safe practice to wrap a cloth rag around one's fingers as well as a workpiece. Generally, I don't use cloths long enough to wrap around my finger or the workpiece.
I've never seen turners hang tools like that, and I'm pretty sure Richard is fully aware of any dangers involving the lathe. The guy has probably forgotten more about turning than any of us will ever know.. just kinda weird to be giving useless pointers to a woodturning legend. It's like telling Jimi Hendrix that he's using the wrong strings.
Perhaps if you look closer you will see the sock is gripped in both hands but not actually wrapped 'around' any fingers or thumbs. Thus it would just pull or jerk the cloth out of his hand. In any case this gentleman has made his life's work for 50 years doing this and to your amazement I'm sure, you will notice he still has five digits on each hand. Hello from Texas and have a good day!
