Woodturning a large dogwood bowl using carbide lathe tools

[@kimr5841]

I just bought a midi lathe and am taking lessons from our local turning club. I have been leaning toward traditional gouges, because that is what they are teaching me with. After watching the simplicity of the carbide tools you use, I'm reconsidering now. thank you for the video and the lessons on using good carbide cutters.

[@padan3729]

Very nice looking bowl. Found your video when I searched for dogwood bowl. One of my tree guy buddies texted me this morning saying he has a cool chunk of wood for me and it's dogwood.

[@HarrisPropertyMaintenance]

thanks for all the explanation, im a young teen getting into wood turning just got my first cutting tool and wanted to see carbide tools in action

[@MikeWaldt]

Another really thorough demo Steve, and a superb bowl at the end. Great video. Take care Mike

[@SJWoodworks]

Mike Waldt Thanks, Mike! Some day I'll figure out how to make a video under 10 minutes!

[@MikeWaldt]

SJWoodworks When you do....let me know how it's done please ;) Cheers Mike

[@wbarnett22]

Great video and thanks for explaining the different setups and reasons for doing various things during the turning. Keep up the good work.

[@SJWoodworks]

wbarnett22 Thanks for the comment!

[@danhaniff1157]

Well done Steve. I use my carbide cutter only on bowls, they work great. I even like your music...lol.

[@SJWoodworks]

Piety Ridge Dan Haniff Hah, thanks for watching. I'll keep trying to pick fun music!

[@ferimathe6479]

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[@THESNAF2]

Nice job with the bowl using you carbide tools Steve,I'll be having a go with mine as well.. cheers Mick!!!

[@SJWoodworks]

Mick Burns Thanks, Mick! Happy turning.

[@fredgraber9385]

Very good video Steve. Well demonstrated. I've begun using a few carbide tools and have been pretty happy with them. Thanks for sharing. Fred

[@peterbrown2602]

great informative video for carbide tools......thankyou

[@SamuraiSwimmer]

Being new to turning it is great that you explained in detail all the issues esp using carbide tools as there is a paucity of videos using carbide

[@jakejacobs652]

Hi Steve great video I think we should call you the carbide king. I dont have much luck with carbide tools except when hollowing I get to much tear out. Cheers Jake

[@SJWoodworks]

Thanks for the comment, Jake. I often do finishing cuts with a cupped carbide cutter, instead of a scraper, to help with the tearout. The secret is the same - finish with slow light cuts.

[@williamprince1371]

Nice work. Just found your channel. Will be watching some of your other videos too.

[@patriciaaiken]

Helpful, thorough videos, thanks from a beginner! Two questions, however: First, at 16:54 what is the "padding" between the inside of the bowl and chuck - and how can it hold without slipping? Second, how do you determine the inside depth to cut out the bottom since you can not feel the thickness? Many thanks.

[@billk8579]

Great series of videos on carbide. You have convinced me to give them a try. Harrison looks like a good choice. Can you give us an idea about how long a carbide cutter lasts?

[@johnivarjakobsen6725]

Use a diamond stone 400 to 1000 , and resharpe them , use honing oil and put the plate upside down at the stone, circle around fore about 30 seconds and you are ready to go

[@NBCRGraphicDesign]

Great job, Steve! Looks like Dogwood from here. They say you can tell by the "bark". LOL. But really, your piece's bark does share the same square tiles, or scales that Dogwood has. Wood is hard and dense? Fresh dogwood is creamy colored and has pink hues in places. Makes a GREAT mallet head because of its density. Again, nice video!

[@SJWoodworks]

Thanks Dave! I'd love to get my hands on more of this wood, whatever it was.

[@Sam-tg4ii]

I have this carbide set. It's good quality and made in US. But I still feel a bit scared using it to rough gouge something big like this, especially with bark. I keep thinking the carbide tip is going to catch,break, and fly off into my face. Not sure how grounded this fear is but I like that a traditional roughing gouge is just once piece.

[@pesto12601]

Nice video... interesting that your lathe speed keeps fluctuating as you are cutting... is that caused by drag from the tool or the weight of the log?

[@SJWoodworks]

Good question, I hadn't even noticed that. Must be because it is extremely unbalanced at the beginning, so the tool has a lot of impact I think.

[@pesto12601]

SJWoodworks could be... love your videos - for someone just starting out making them they are well laid out and edited and very informative... I am just starting out myself and your are an inspiration... many thx!

[@richardschaffling9882]

Nice bowl on your carbide tools you use both round and square shaft tools is one better then the other or is it just a preference

[@raysmith1028]

Thanks V good Demo

[@danhaniff1157]

I forgot to mention your video is neat and clean it's probably in HD.

[@mcctravel]

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[@twotracksoutdoors7390]

Where do you get the carbide cutters?

[@samp1394]

Just what I wanted to hear music! I have NO idea why I was looking in wood turning ?

[@vinimarshall7301]

Nice work but that fkn horrible repetetive music i had to turn sound off and missed most of what you said

[@richardjensen4424]

Too much talking and not enough demonstration of real time turning with instructional comments. tighten up presentation and it would be much more effective and instructional.

[@rosedale2566]

Please kill the music,great video otherwise

[@damasydia]

Too much talking...I come to KZbin to watch videos ...if I wanted to hear talking I would ask my wife about her day

[@danielwadeson5307]

Airborne Mike this is a tutorial you can expect there’d be talking. Also this is a KZbin video and everyone talks in KZbin videos. I know this was 2years ago but really?