This video demonstrates how to turn a honey dipper on a lathe. This is a great project for someone new to woodturning. It is also a fun project for an experienced turner.
Great video, liked & subscribed! Your videos are really easy to follow and informative. At 4.08 you stop the piece and I noticed lots of little ripples in the wood, I get this whenever I turn a piece, but struggle to smooth them out. Any ideas why? Thanks. Mike
The roughing gouge will leave the ripples when you make an aggressive cut. You can make a very light pass with a sharp rouging gouge to eliminate this but I don't bother because when you move to the spindle gouge it will eliminate the ripples as you see in the video. Sanding will further remove any imperfections.
You must start with a relatively course grade of sandpaper in order to remove tool marks from the wood. You then progressively use finer grit paper in order to achieve a smooth fine finish. Each grit of sandpaper removes imperfections imposed by the courser grit that preceded it. You must do this one step at a time. You cannot start with a course grit and jump right to a very fine grit and expect to get a smooth finish without blemishes.
Newbie here, thank you for id the tool names, and techniques. Going to ask to do this in woodturning class..made a few pens easily.
Excellent video well explained. Great job
very good 👌👌👌
Great video, liked & subscribed! Your videos are really easy to follow and informative. At 4.08 you stop the piece and I noticed lots of little ripples in the wood, I get this whenever I turn a piece, but struggle to smooth them out. Any ideas why? Thanks. Mike
The roughing gouge will leave the ripples when you make an aggressive cut. You can make a very light pass with a sharp rouging gouge to eliminate this but I don't bother because when you move to the spindle gouge it will eliminate the ripples as you see in the video. Sanding will further remove any imperfections.
what is the reason behind the incremental sand paper?
You must start with a relatively course grade of sandpaper in order to remove tool marks from the wood. You then progressively use finer grit paper in order to achieve a smooth fine finish. Each grit of sandpaper removes imperfections imposed by the courser grit that preceded it. You must do this one step at a time. You cannot start with a course grit and jump right to a very fine grit and expect to get a smooth finish without blemishes.