Richard Raffan on the uses of a ½-in spindle gouge @RichardRaffanwoodturning

Richard Raffan | Richard Raffan on the uses of a ½-in spindle gouge @RichardRaffanwoodturning | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
If I was forced to choose just one tool for turning wood it would be a ½-in spindle gouge. With this gouge I can turn big and small spindles — you see a very small spindle, and reduce square spindle blanks to round. (You don't need a roughing gouge.) This is my preferrd tool for hollowing into endgrain and shaping bowl profiles, and it can hollow small bowls.

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