On 11/6/2011 7:48 PM, Vic Baron wrote:
Tools sharp - balance fine - it's my technique for sure. The main
problem is after I've hollowed out the sides and am using the scraper to
flatten out the bottom. Probably pushing too hard.



I've turned a fair amount, perhaps not as much as some here, but enough
that I can generally concentrate on what I want to make rather than how
(see the gallery page on my web site, www.wbnoble.com under hobbies) -
anyway, I really don't like scrapers, I find them catch prone and
dangerous, I rarely use them and then only in shear with the scraper
very lightly touching the wood - for flattening a bowl bottom I use the
same gouge I hollowed it with - typically a 1/2 to 5/8 gouge with a very
swept back fingernail grind. MY guess is that you are cutting too broad
a swath and if you went to something much thinner (in cutting width) you
would fare better -