How to Turn a Small Hollow Form

I demonstrate How to Turn a small hollow form of box elder including how I hold the piece on the lathe and the woodturning tools and techniques for hollowing.
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[@jamesmoore3346]

I'm falling in love with powermatic lathe, I've only been turnning about 3yrs with a mini lathe, just bought the next size up. I have worked with machinists lathes in the past, 36" swing with. 14ft max material length. I have never seen a sliding headstock, love it!!. I ever get to that stage of turnning, powermatic will have to be in the running, LOL. That is a nice feature...........

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I like my sliding headstock and use it with almost every bowl. That said, some noted turners that turn larger work complain of vibration with a sliding HS. I guess I am not a good enough turner to notice. I think it is a subtle issue. I smile every time I use my lathe and appreciate all of the cast iron.

[@terrytjaden1631]

Mike, Thanks for the great demo. I too occasionally drop screws into chips and got tired of searching for them. I took a 12" long piece of oak about 2" wide. On one end I turned a handle to make a wand. On the other end I countersunk five rare earth magnets about 1/2 " apart. I used 3/4" magnets but probably half inch will do. Now when I drop anything into the chips I wave the wand over the chips and the screw jumps onto the magnet. Saves a lot of bad words as well as easier on the back.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Sounds likea great solution! I will have to make one.

[@jamesmoore3346]

Great idea! I have the typical manchanics stick magnets but this sounds like it would be so much better. On my list of DIY shop tools.......thanks

[@WoodsleeSummercraftwoodturning]

Nice shape mike

[@davidshaper5146]

Nerves of steel. As a relative beginner, I still get too many catches on the simple stuff. I don't think I'm ready to attempt something like that, but I appreciate the talent. Nice job!

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Tool control will come with practice once you understand the basics. I don't enjoy doing HF's as much as a lot of other things. I guess that is why it has taken me so long to make a HF video.

[@TheLittleGardenShedWorkshop]

Nice job Mike, great video mate,
Best wishes
Harry

[@ErikAnderson1]

Beautiful Mike!

[@TomWhitlock-rb7oo]

Great video, how do you sharpen the swan neck tools?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

All of mine have removalble HSS cutters. Most are 3/16" cutters I sharpen with a John Jordan jig.

[@kylewo0]

🤣 that’s mee with the screw too

[@djalilesfahani6825]

Mike you doing fantastic and your good teacher. Thank's for all what you doing for us. I have questions abut point 1/4 scraper you have ,would you please tell me what episodes you have it .because I have perchesed ss rod 1/4" and don't know how to make it. Thank's again

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Thanks for the comment. It is in the Small Lathe Tool series. Easy to find in the Woodturning Toolmaking play list.

[@KE4YAL]

Looks good

[@jeffoldham3466]

mike I was thinking about getting the simplicity hollower with the lazar,,the one with the articulating arm,,,what are your thoughts on using this kind verses the hand held,,

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I am not familiar with the simplicity hollower but am familiar with the articulating arm hollowers in general. I like the concept. They have a smaller footprint tor storing then the Lyle Jamieson style rig I have. I believe the Jamieson style allows a bit deeper hollowing then an articulating arm. I am not a big fan of hand held if you are going deeper then say 4-5 inches. I like a laser but I don't do much hollowing. If I did I would setup the camera and monitor system like Trent Bosch sells. They are not expensive to build your own. I have the parts but just have not followed thru with assembling one. A general rule of thumb is you can hollow 12-15 x the hollowing bar diameter before you get excessive chatter. So a 3/4" bar should be good for about 11" depth. Hope this helps.

[@jeffoldham3466]

it does help a lot mike and thank you

[@bradsoulchin5334]

Hey Mike, the glue gun you said you wanted to play with, was it just a regular hot glue gun? how long should you wait until you can put it on the lathe? I've not tried a glue block yet, but would like to. thanks Brad

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I will put up a video on this next Friday. My gun has 100 watts. Wait at least 30 seconds.

[@Tommo158]

Great video as always Mike, thank you. I don't have the hollowing tools to do this at the moment but I will one day as I love those wee hollow forms that I have seen yourself and Sam Angelo make, they are really pretty. A few of them, all with slightly different profiles would make a nice wee display.
Are there any woods to avoid for this form?

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

I would avoid oak because of the course grain. Maple, cherry and Pear are all good.

[@michaelhuntley7244]

Hi Mike, Could you tell me where you got your Forstner bit extension? My Forstner bits have a round shank and I'm having trouble finding an extension that's not hex.

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

+Michael Huntley sorry but I got it used.

[@michaelhuntley7244]

Okay thanks.

[@justanuthaguy8080]

Michael, I found forstner bit extensions for the round bits on amazon. I got an MLCS 9270H 5” extension and it works great.

[@skipproctor8979]

Mike how did you create the threads on the glue block? Thanks!

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

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