Use and Care Manual

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shoulder down to the finished size. Hold the skew so the bottom edge of
the bevel next to the shoulder will be very nearly parallel to the side of the
shoulder. Made sure this is with the cutting edge turned away at the top, so
that only the extreme toe will do the cutting.If the cutting edge is flat against
the shoulder the chisel will run. Start with the handle low and then raise it to
advance the toe into the work.Cut down to finished diameter of outside
area, then clean out the corner by advancing the heel of the skew into it
along the surface the outside area.Tilt the cutting edge, with the handle
raised up, so that only the extreme heel does the cutting if the shoulder is
at the end of work, process is called”aquaring the end.” In this case, reduce
the outer portion to a diameter about 1/4” larger than the tool center
diameter. Saw off the waste stock later.
CUTTING COVES
Use a pencil mark to indicate the edges. Then rough it out to within ablut
1/8” of the desired finish surface by scraping with the gouge or round nose
chisel.If the cove is to be very wide, sizing cuts can be made to plot the
roughing out.Once it is roughed out, the cove can be finished in two cuts;
one from each side to the bottom center.
At the start of either cut,gouge is held with handle high and the two sides of
blade held between the thumb and forefinger of the tool rest handle, just
behind the bevel. Position the fingers ready to roll the blade into cove.Hold
blade so that bevel is a 90 degree angle to the work axis, with point
touching the pencil line and pointed into work axis.
From this start, depress point slightly to start cut,then continue to move
point down in an are toward the bottom center cove.A t the same time,toll
chisel uniformly so that, at the end of the cut, it will be flat at the bottom of
the cove. The object is to keep the extreme point of the gouge doing the
cutting from start to finish.Reverse movements to cut the opposite side.
CUTTING VEES
Vee grooves can be cut with either the toe or heel of the skew.When the
toe is used, the cutting action is exactly the same as in trimming a shoulder,
except that the skew is tilted to