On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 5:05:40 PM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2017 11:35:05 -0600
wrote:

hollow turning through a small hole to make a small urn. I managed to
get a fairly uniform thickness of 2-3mm and was refining the outside
near the base. I had re-ground the fingernail on a 3/8" spindle gouge
and almost immediately got a nasty catch. So as I had enough wood
left, I tried to turn it out whereupon I caught an even nastier one


there are some good videos of a japanese turner doing thin walled
bowls and the light bulb technique

the technique used is scraping rather than a full frontal gouge

That makes a lot of sense. However, thus guy was wsung a full blown doufe.

I said he is good. :-)