This woodturning tip comes from Edric Florence of Southwestern Pennsylvania. In his on-line article on making a natural edge bowl, Edric uses superb photographs and provides a high level walk through of the process.

Excerpt from the full article:

". . . In this photo with the lathe stopped, you can see that I am holding the cutting tool (I use specially ground custom-made bowl gouges for this work) very firmly in my hand and against the tool rest, which has been brought in as close to the work as possible to minimize vibration. Because the wood is so thin at this point and because I usually turn wood that is still green, it is very flexible as it spins on the lathe at high rpms. At this point, even the smallest twitch or slightest miscalculation can render hours of careful work into a thousand splinters in less than a hundredth of a second! . . ."

See the full article on the Edric Florence web site

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