Mon, Jun 12, 2006, 6:15am George@least (George) doth sayeth:
If the mallets are indeed pine, or possibly spruce, you'll be remaking
them often. Ring porous woods make lousy mallets. Also make splintery
turning when the tool's not sharp and the pressure tries to compensate.

You're supposed to be planing with the gouge, not gouging or rasping.
Don't do it Norm's way, do it Roy's way and it'll surprise you how easy
it is.

I 've use hand planes on the lathe, both powered and un, but I wouldn't
trust two spinning things in conflict, controlled by my hand. Have to be
some serious motion-limiting jig in use.

Pine, spruce, fir. All the same family, so didn't bother to
differentiate. I've got some I made from what I know is pine, years
ago, and they're all holding up well, except for the one my son's dog
sneaked out of the shop and used for a chew toy - and I even still use
that one. So, "often" is relative.

Yeah, I know how to use a gouge, it was just taking too long.

I don't see using a power plane with the lathe running as any worse
than using hand plane. I think the hand plane might tend to catch in a
know, where a power plane wouldn't.



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