"Dan Kozar" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Vic Baron" wrote:

Not sure how to explain this question -

saw a couple of YouTube videos and noticed that one person was using the
spindle gouge differently than I'd seen before.

I've seen the pulling cut on end grain where you insert the gouge and
turn
the face to the 10 o'clock position and pull towards you.

This guy was sort of doing that on the cylinder - he would go from right
to
left "normally" - with the gouge riding the bevel and the point of the
gouge
pointing in the direction of the cut. Then when he reached the left end,
he
just rotated the face 180 degrees and with the gouge still pointing to
the
left, pulled back to the right and continued the cut.

Is this a normal technique, advanced, unusual, etc.

Seems to me that for a newbie like me who keeps rapping his knuckles on
the
chuck that learning this technique might prove useful.

Just bothers me that it appears that he is not riding the bevel at all.

FWIW, from what I could see it appears that the wings of the gouge were
ground back a bit.

Maybe I've missed something.

Thanx,

Vic

Vic, how about a link to the video, if I could see what he is doing, I
might be able to help you.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpnP2G0vLM&feature=fvsr

it looks like the gouge is pointed to 10 oclock and he's pulling from left
to right - looks like it works fine but I'm curious.

thanx!