Well, talking about me behind my back again? I guess I could check in
more often.

The Easy Rougher is a scraper. Scrapers are my go to tool for roughing
out bowl blanks. They also work well for shear cuts/finish cuts on
the inside and outside of a bowl. Hold it at a 45 degree angle rather
than flat on the tool rest and you get a good finish cut. The Easy
Rougher is a version of a tool that origionated on the Oregon Coast
with the Myrtle wood turners, known as the Big Ugly tool. It was a 30
inch or so long piece of 3/4 inch square steel bar stock, with a 2
inch or so by 7/8 inch wide by about 1/8 inch thick piece of Tantung
steel silver soldered to each end. Since both ends are sharp, you wear
a heavy leather glove on the handle hand. The advantage to the Tantung
is that you can sharpen it on conventional grinders. The carbide tips
on the Easy Rougher can not be resharpened in most home shops, and
maybe not in any shop. Our diamond hones won't do enough to resharpen
them. It uses a micro/nano grain carbide which is much finer than the
stuff your saw blade teeth are made out of. There are inserts you can
find, but I don't think they are the same carbide.

robo hippy

On Aug 22, 9:43*am, wrote:
Thanks for replying Mac, seems the old flashcard is failing me ;-)),
Mac I've made and use a few homemade tools, though I make the swan-
neck shape, to eliminate the twisting torque on them, unless they are
very small tools, and even then it is easier to use them without the
twisting and grabbing the tool might/will do.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loohttp://homepage.mac.com/l.vanderloo/PhotoAlbum4.html

On Aug 22, 10:55*am, mac davis wrote:



On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:20:23 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Wasn't me, Leo...

I don't do any hollowing that the Eliminator or Termite won't handle... Hollow
forms just aren't my thing..

OTOH, I an sort of intrigued by Bill Noble's post about using old alan wrenches
for hollowing... I have a few that would fit my Oland tools... hmmm...

Hi Mac
Just reading this thread, and thinking about the different tools we
use and try,
did you use or try the reshaped drill-bit to use for hollowing, I'm
maybe wrong as it's been a while, thought it was you that tried that
tool at one time ??
If it wasn't you, do you happen to remember something about this, or
anybody else for that matter of course :-))

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo
http://homepage.mac.com/l.vanderloo/PhotoAlbum4.html

On Aug 21, 1:42*am, mac davis wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:26:51 -0400, "Kevin Cleary" wrote:
Has anyone used this tool? I've seen a couple of videos and it seems to
rough out bowls pretty easily.
It would seem to be nice for cherry burls with a lot of bark.

Robohippy uses on.. seems to like it.. He may comment..
If not, google this group for ezrougher or robohippy and check out the
discussion we had a few months ago..

I think if I was more of a production turner, I'd make the investment, but for
now I'll stick with oland tools and bowl gouges..

mac

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