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Ping: ROBOHIPPY - Eliminator
Got the Mega and tried it out yesterday...Holy ****!
It's like the Termite and Supercut tools on steroids.. I used it unhandled most of the time, and with the coring handle for a deep vase.. It's WAY long with the handle and feels awkward, but I guess ya get used to it.. I had an ironwood bowl that I'd put aside a few weeks ago.. Just couldn't get the shape I wanted on the inside because of a very irregular and cracked side shape on the top half of the bowl.. Touched it a few times with the mega (my first cut with it) and it shaved that sucker like it was a smooth pine bowl.. Then I put a badly cracked juniper log on the lathe and rounded it into a rough vase, drilled a 1/2" pilot hole about 9" deep and had at it.. WOW.. I did all the hollowing/smoothing/scraping this morning and what would have been at least a half day job took 2 hours.. The log had a 1/8" wide crack down the side of the vase and all the mega did was click as it shaved it clean.. The Supercut might have done it, but I think the flex/vibration would have damaged the crack.. And the Termite would have caught and blown the vase.. BTW: I never touched a scraper at all.. just the mega on the inside and a sharp bowl gouge on the outside... Not having to use scrapers lowered my stress level a lot, since I was doing walls less than 1/4" thick all the way down... I'm MORE than impressed... I wish I hadn't let the price tag stop me from getting it a year or 2 ago... Thanks for "pushing me over the edge" on this purchase, Reed.. mac Please remove splinters before emailing |
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