Hello Anonymous

IF someone is breaking 2" off a bowl gouge....??? 2 suggestions: 1. Get
some PERSONAL instruction immediately! 2. Failing that (No. 1 ) ....take
up basket weaving..........You'll live longer.....

I thought something like that also, You don't just break a piece off a
HSS turning tool, (was it HSS ?) you are definitely doing something
really wrong and dangerous, unless there was a flaw in the steel, does
not happen often I think, or people would bring this up in the posts.

Thank you, Kip.
The tool rest was within 1/2" of the work. I was still turning the bowl
blank down to round or it probably wouldn't have been that far away. The
break was actually IN my left hand ... and pretty far into it, too. It
drew blood from my little finger at the point where it snapped and -all-
of my fingers are -always- behind the tool rest when I am cutting stock.
Moreover,

I didn't say that it was a bowl gouge. It wasn't. It was a
spindle gouge

Bowl gouges are for bowls, spindle gouges are for spindles

being applied to the outside diameter. (It has since been
reshaped into a bowl gouge.)

mind telling us how you change a spindle gouge into a bowl gouge, now I
assume it was maybe a homemade tool?.

I spent the better part of ten years of my life working as a
prototype machinist and then as a diemaker. I know better than to leave
excessive tool hanging out ... and I DO better.


Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

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