If you take a log, cut it in half, then prep it to turn as a bowl by cutting a circle on your band saw, that gets you a decent piece to start with but not all of us have the top-of-the-line tools to do this. Usually, when I start shaping the outside of the bowl, I spend a lot of time and fairly slow speeds working on parts that stick out quite a bit.
I've been thinking that it might be good to have some kind of a tool that could help me even off these parts before I turn the lathe on. Other than using the chainsaw for this, does anyone have any other strategies for addressing this, or should I just "Man-up!" and deal with it?
Based on the old fashioned cheese grater concept, I was thinking that something like this http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...62&filter=sand but one that takes away more wood and is designed to operate on an angle grinder, might be a cool thing to have but I have not seen anything like that.
By the way, many thanks for those of you who recommended Bill Grumbine's videos. I have both and learned so much from them!