Well, I'm finally at the point where I want to get into the rounded profile edge tools. I do mostly furniture building in my little shop and am looking into what are the best sizes in gouges, rounds, and hollows to get first. Any ideas?
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Well, I'm finally at the point where I want to get into the rounded profile edge tools. I do mostly furniture building in my little shop and am looking into what are the best sizes in gouges, rounds, and hollows to get first. Any ideas?
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furniture then it's probably best to go with smaller profiles. H/R #2 to 10. As far as gouges go, I have a few back bent gouges I use solely for cleaning up the molding profiles, ie. tearout and such.
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I think I use my back bent #25/10 more than any other, however. The only other that comes close is the #11 veiner. Either 1mm or 2mm wide. It allows you to lay out your work initially.
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A broad #3 is what I use very often. I have a #3 in 3 different widths.
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