I have not been turning due to having to change things around in the shop for the new to me performax sander(which i love). Anyway I have been getting lighting up and sweeping here and there and putting things where they go. Well I thought I have worked hard this pasted week so I deserve to turn something.... looked over at the bench and found a big ole red elm bowl I had started. Things started out ok, started gouging out the inside of the bowl and things are going good and nice long curls of wood are going everywhere..., started and stopped several times to check my wall thickness, things are still going....BAMMMMMM )(^**&&^%$^&$(*^&(*&^()^$#$^%$##$ there are not enough symbols on a keyboard to describe my words...
I can turn a piece of expenive wood and it turns nicely. I get a piece of red elm that I have almost nothing in and I cant turn it... the first red elm bowl I turned I broke my gouge on.. I just dont know what is going on.
I mean I took my time and took just a little off slowly and really wanted to make this bowl because the grain was very nice in it.
These new tools I got from WC though are starting to puzzle me. They are sharp but it seems you cannot control them. The large gouge and the small gouge seem to just grab the darn wood and they they do what they want... my old cheaper ones didnt do that. Needless to say I am about festered up like a blister...
On the other hand though I havent gotten hit yet, and I do mean to say that red elm bowl, 1/2 bowl, flew fast and hard and I was only on the middle speed.
Any thoughts or direction would be nice.