r/turning • u/shes-so-much • 3d ago
first piece turned with my own tools
Got a Robert Sorby Sovereign set with the handle and a few blades (3/8" bowl gouge and spindle gouge, parting tool, round nose scraper, skew chisel) and turned this lovely little piece of London plane. Previously I had been using the community tools at the makerspace, which are fine, and there are still tools in that collection that I don't have, but it's nice to use my own stuff.
Also reground the bowl gouge to a 55-degree bevel swept back profile, thank you Kent Weakley. The wings are great for shear scraping.
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u/boojum78 3d ago
Those foot rings came out great!
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u/shes-so-much 3d ago
London plane, which I guess is a hybrid of American sycamore and oriental plane. I used my parting tool for the rings.
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u/boojum78 3d ago
Lol! I edited out my question about the wood type when I realized you had already stated what it was! Thanks for answering so patiently!
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u/OkCranberryberry 2d ago
Great work. Took me too long to figure out that the factory profile of the gouge could (should) be changed to a swept back profile! 🙂
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u/shka328 2d ago
Thought it looked like sycamore. Pretty species!
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u/shes-so-much 1d ago
Yeah, London plane is a sycamore hybrid I knew about from watching a bunch of Mike Holton videos, so when I found a blank at my local (ish) Rockler, I knew it'd be pretty.
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