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Default Some problems with my first vase

mac davis wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:24:29 -0600, william kossack
wrote:

a quick way to get that little nub out is a forstner bit mounted in your
tailstock with a drill chuck


Then, all you have to do is get the friggin' hole from the point of the forstner
bit smoothed out... BTDT got the t-shirt..

Being a devout coward, I use the largest, thickest round nose scraper that will
fit in the opening to smooth the bottom.. If I have to, I'll use my round
side-scraper, but a full round nose is a lot more stable and safer, IMO...


Ah but when the vase is say 10 inches deep and the opening only an inch
wide how do you get a scraper in there? The idea is to use the forstner
bit to take out the bulk of the cone leaving something that can be
easily taken care of with what ever hollowing tool you use