"Jimbo" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:07:06 -0500, "Dr. Deb"
wrote:


The only way to make a spindle gouge into a bowl gouge is to reforge it.
As
you suspected, the flutes are different radius.

Deb

Great, another craft to try and master before I am buried six feet
under. I think I better start shopping for some bowl gouges....


Though the flutes are a different radius, you can get the same angles on a
round spindle gouge as are available on a bowl gouge. Fingernailing the
gouge, which is to say rolling it as it is turned at the grinder, will give
you longer cutting ears. This will allow you to cut at the same angles
others use for the sides of a piece, but with a longer bevel left at the
nose, you'll have to have good clearance to run around the turn into the
bottom. That would make the gouge much less useful for spindle work, which
likes a longer nose bevel.

Gouges which are actually forged rather than ground, make superb peels on
convex pieces, and, with clearance, concave as well.
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...30,43164,43175
Once again, the weakness is in the nose, and making steep turns.

It's an edge on a stick, regardless the name given.