Originally Posted by
Adam Petersen
Thanks Steve. I don't know why I couldn't beat that end grain. I was using a freshly sharpened bowl gouge (several actually as I tried to win the battle). I tried sheer scraping with them, I tried using my skew as a neg. rake scraper....I think maybe, reading the recent post about tearout, that I was cutting the wrong direction. I was moving large diameter to small diameter, but maybe the way I had it oriented I was cutting uphill and pulling up the fibers. I even put sanding sealer on it to lock the fibers but no avail. It was a fail in that regard, but a learning process so I'm not too frustrated. It's a process right? I'm pretty new at this.