More entertaining and informative than watching someone hack out all shapes with 'easy' tools carbide...something I run into all too often on UTube. Cheers Richard
Great video! I’ve learned so much watching you! The one thing that I like is you do not edit the little catches! But you show how to correct them! Thanks once again
Only you could do that ! I still remember your advice from many years ago « Letting the wood come to the tool and not pushing it into the wood », best woodturning advice I know
Love your scraper work. When you scrape I always think of Reed Gray aka Robo Hippy. He is also a master of the scraper. I learned a lot from both of you. Thanks for your videos and knowledge.
That looked terrifying! 😂 Not something I will be trying any time soon, definitely only for someone with your experience. Thanks Richard, you are indeed 'The Master'..
Absolutely fantastic demonstration and videography!! Not only a very good turning instructor, but you could be training camera operators at group demonstrations.
While there is no doubt you can get a cleaner cut with a gouge, this video proves that properly ground and sharpened scrapers in the hands of a skilled professional can achieve very good results!
The point I'm trying to make is that scrapers aren't nearly as effecient as gouges for shaping profiles. I tend to rough with gouges and finish with scrapers.
When I first started turning back in the early 90s that's all I used to turn bowls because I didn't know any better. Got a hand me down lathe, and some worn out scrapers, and had no idea what a gouge was for years. This was before the interwebs was so accessible so it's all I knew. When I first learned about gouges, I hated them because all I knew was scrapers, now I don't know how I managed without them. 🤷
Fascinating! A very interesting watch, demonstrating that while it's not particularly efficient, it's entirely possible to turn a bowl with nothing but scrapers. Thanks for all you do, Richard.
A magnificent show of craftsmanship, interspersed with sound advice. Not, I think, something you will do again soon though. Thanks for another entertaining and educational video.
Great video showing what can be done and also why you use the right tool for the right job. And including some great explanations. Plus, got to see what is possible with just a set of scrapers. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent video. You've also proven that you can turn any piece of wood with any tool. You are the master! The even better news is that you continue to share your skills with us. Thank you!
Cool video. This is basically how I started when I taught myself with carbides. I didn't have cups or negative rakes, just standard cutters 90 to the piece. I wouldn't trade my gouges for anything. Always a great and enjoyable video, thanks.
Thank you for a very informative narration and illustration of the cuts that you are using . I have a rough turned ash bowl that is over 12 years dry , and rough as a corn cob I now have a better idea for my next steps to finish it so that I get a smoother finish
It's not the first time I heard that challenge. Reed Gray aka Robo Hippy said in one of his videos years ago that you could turn a bowl with just scrapers. Yes, you can, as you showed but I bet that's not your preferred method. The stair-step method you used to rough the bowl is the same method I use but with a bowl gouge. I rough everything from a log so essentially I use a plunge scrapping cut with a bowl gouge. I learned that technique from Lyle Jamison and it sure is much less physically demanding than trying to get knocked around by a log. After all these years, and at your age, I'm glad to see that you are up for a challenge. I don't miss very many of your videos. It keeps my mind fresh and inspires me to keep at it. Thanks for sharing!
Richard, do you by chance have a video where you cover how you sharpen your scrapers? I've tried a few techniques, however my scrapers never seem to hold their sharp edge much beyond the first 30-60 seconds after sharpening. Your amazing video here shows you using scrapers to hog out huge amounts of material, and the wood just curls off the edge of the scraper for minutes at a time. Is there some secret to sharpening/honing a scraper so it can do that? Amazing work on the bowl, BTW. Never knew it was possible to turn a bowl entirely with scrapers!
Have you done a video about rests? The various types, choosing what length, twisting into a bowl, heights for different tools and jobs, how close over the post should various tools be, using the Robust comfort profile versus low profile rests. Planning on making boxes, I succumbed to the temptation to buy a box rest, but I see no videos using one. I love your videos, your subdued demeanor in presentation, and your reaction to mishaps. Thank you.
There willl be a video on the rests I use and why. As a professional turner I've retained the equipment I need to make a living efficiently, so I'm unable to review collections of weird of rests, chucks, or tools that purport to make turning easy. I've no idea what a box rest might be.
Welp .... A few months ago I added a hefty spear point scraper to my tool rack (THANKS!). Now it looks like I need to try to custom grind a square end scraper to do some of the things you showed here.
I'm not a bowl turner by any stretch of the imagination but I've been using scrapers on my few bowls ever since i started turning. I've only got 1 bowl gouge withh a swept back grind which doesn't really work when deep in a bowl. Hence the use of my scrapers. I believe scrapers were used for most types of turning hundreds of years ago when turners made their own tools or had them msde at the local blacksmiths.
Your bowl gouge will work fine with a different bevel or asymmetric grind. ruclips.net/video/idB-z6--FAs/видео.html. In pre-industrial times turners used hook tools and skew chisels, and still do in in many parts of the world.
Richard, i was really nervous as you kept going thinner and thinner, especiall 36:40 y when your depth drill went in a bit more than you wanted. But, you pulled it off, and it was great. Just how many tools do you have?
Good morning. Could you please do a video on sharpening for beginners? I don't have a lot of sharpening tools. (Skew chisel, Bowl gouge and spindle gouge) those are the tool I use the most.
Amazing t ok see you try something so unconventional, especially after 54 years. I would love to see you explain what your lathe maintenance routine is. I admire how smoothly your banjo moves each time you make an adjustment and I’m curious if it’s due to routine maintenance tricks.
I do little more than wipe the lathe down after use. After turning green timber I'll wipe and spray-and-wipe using WD40 or lanolin. The rest banjo is occasionally sprayed with WD40. In this video I realized the drive belt needs tightening and that get done today.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturningCertainly. I would never have dreamed to attempt it, but it sure was fun watching you have a go! Thanks so much for being so generous with your time - it is so wonderful to see you do what I was only able to imagine in all your books!
A couple of things. When you were using the square end scraper, I kept thinking that it reminded me of the square carbide tools, in particular, roughing out the inside. Have you ever tried any carbides? Perfect opportunity for you to learn something new! Also, when you are doing the shear scraping with the tool at an angle, is the tool rounded where it contacts the tool rest?
I've tried all manner of carbide tools since the late 1970s but never found any satisfactory for the sort of work I do, apart from the Kelton Hollowers I use for hollow forms with small openings. Ideally you round the lower edge of a tool used for shear scraping so it slides easily along the rest. All my scrapers have rounded lower side edges.
Richard, when you came to shear scraping the rim towards the end. You turned down the speed. Was this to reduce the pressure on the tool, and thus on the rim? Still loving all your videos. Btw, do you source most of your wood from arborists
I reduced speed when turning the rim to reduce chatter and make a catch less explosive. Catches on a thin rim can disintegrate a bowl. All my wood now comes from garage sales and my local ACT Woodcraft Guild where there's a timber team processing logs for the benefit of members. When in production I purchased burls by the tonne from timber-getters or mills and for a few years cut my own in Tasmania under a craft licence.
That's the sort of stuff covered in my books. Basically they go into large boxes or stacks out of the sun but in a breeze or draught. I don't bother painting the endgrain, but keep a close eye on them for the first week. Any that start to split go back on the lathe to be finished green.
Crossgrain bowls can be turned using a skew chisel, but you risk spectacular catches and skews are not recommended on crossgrain. You can see a skew on an endgrain bowl in ruclips.net/video/EayQJu1jIvE/видео.html
Thanks Richard. Your use of scrapers helped me greatly improve my bowls. Much less sanding which increases the enjoyment. The shear scraping demonstrations are so helpful.
I'm glad my wife didn't watch this. Otherwise, I would be told that I don't need more tools. He can do it all with just that couple. You're not helping with my collection.
More entertaining and informative than watching someone hack out all shapes with 'easy' tools carbide...something I run into all too often on UTube. Cheers Richard
Odd. His technique for hollowing is exactly what I do with carbide scrapers which also shear cut.
Great video! I’ve learned so much watching you! The one thing that I like is you do not edit the little catches! But you show how to correct them!
Thanks once again
Only you could do that !
I still remember your advice from many years ago « Letting the wood come to the tool and not pushing it into the wood », best woodturning advice I know
As a master of the ultra thin and see-through, Pascal, I'm sure you're more than capable of doing the same.
Love your scraper work. When you scrape I always think of Reed Gray aka Robo Hippy. He is also a master of the scraper. I learned a lot from both of you.
Thanks for your videos and knowledge.
Always a most enjoyable learning experience watching you turn Richard. Thank you so much!
That looked terrifying! 😂 Not something I will be trying any time soon, definitely only for someone with your experience. Thanks Richard, you are indeed 'The Master'..
Absolutely fantastic demonstration and videography!! Not only a very good turning instructor, but you could be training camera operators at group demonstrations.
I would say you could turn a bowl with a spoon. Thanks for sharing the knowledge, experience and skill you acquired over 54 years. Jerry
While there is no doubt you can get a cleaner cut with a gouge, this video proves that properly ground and sharpened scrapers in the hands of a skilled professional can achieve very good results!
The point I'm trying to make is that scrapers aren't nearly as effecient as gouges for shaping profiles. I tend to rough with gouges and finish with scrapers.
Your knowledge is just second to none. I can't even imagine turning a bowl with a scraper.
When I first started turning back in the early 90s that's all I used to turn bowls because I didn't know any better. Got a hand me down lathe, and some worn out scrapers, and had no idea what a gouge was for years. This was before the interwebs was so accessible so it's all I knew. When I first learned about gouges, I hated them because all I knew was scrapers, now I don't know how I managed without them. 🤷
Fascinating! A very interesting watch, demonstrating that while it's not particularly efficient, it's entirely possible to turn a bowl with nothing but scrapers. Thanks for all you do, Richard.
A magnificent show of craftsmanship, interspersed with sound advice. Not, I think, something you will do again soon though. Thanks for another entertaining and educational video.
As you say, not something I'm likely do again in a hurry. Far too inefficient and time-consuming.
Great video showing what can be done and also why you use the right tool for the right job. And including some great explanations. Plus, got to see what is possible with just a set of scrapers. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent video. You've also proven that you can turn any piece of wood with any tool. You are the master! The even better news is that you continue to share your skills with us. Thank you!
Love it! Appreciate seeing the techniques that something like this requires.
Cool video. This is basically how I started when I taught myself with carbides. I didn't have cups or negative rakes, just standard cutters 90 to the piece. I wouldn't trade my gouges for anything. Always a great and enjoyable video, thanks.
This was so cool to watch! Thanks a lot for showing all of these great techniques.
Thank you for a very informative narration and illustration of the cuts that you are using . I have a rough turned ash bowl that is over 12 years dry , and rough as a corn cob
I now have a better idea for my next steps to finish it so that I get a smoother finish
This might be more informative for completing a roughed bowl. Normally I use scrapers only for finishing cuts.
It's not the first time I heard that challenge. Reed Gray aka Robo Hippy said in one of his videos years ago that you could turn a bowl with just scrapers. Yes, you can, as you showed but I bet that's not your preferred method.
The stair-step method you used to rough the bowl is the same method I use but with a bowl gouge. I rough everything from a log so essentially I use a plunge scrapping cut with a bowl gouge. I learned that technique from Lyle Jamison and it sure is much less physically demanding than trying to get knocked around by a log.
After all these years, and at your age, I'm glad to see that you are up for a challenge. I don't miss very many of your videos. It keeps my mind fresh and inspires me to keep at it. Thanks for sharing!
Turning a bowl using scrapers isn't much of a challenge - it's just slow and inefficient.
Richard, do you by chance have a video where you cover how you sharpen your scrapers? I've tried a few techniques, however my scrapers never seem to hold their sharp edge much beyond the first 30-60 seconds after sharpening. Your amazing video here shows you using scrapers to hog out huge amounts of material, and the wood just curls off the edge of the scraper for minutes at a time. Is there some secret to sharpening/honing a scraper so it can do that? Amazing work on the bowl, BTW. Never knew it was possible to turn a bowl entirely with scrapers!
Thank you, as always, Richard!
Have you done a video about rests? The various types, choosing what length, twisting into a bowl, heights for different tools and jobs, how close over the post should various tools be, using the Robust comfort profile versus low profile rests. Planning on making boxes, I succumbed to the temptation to buy a box rest, but I see no videos using one. I love your videos, your subdued demeanor in presentation, and your reaction to mishaps. Thank you.
There willl be a video on the rests I use and why. As a professional turner I've retained the equipment I need to make a living efficiently, so I'm unable to review collections of weird of rests, chucks, or tools that purport to make turning easy. I've no idea what a box rest might be.
Nice scraper demonstration although I don't think I'll be trying it myself anytime soon.
Welp .... A few months ago I added a hefty spear point scraper to my tool rack (THANKS!). Now it looks like I need to try to custom grind a square end scraper to do some of the things you showed here.
That's quite a feat, Richard. We'll done!
Thanks Richard
Turning a bowl with only a scraper!!! You know I had to see that!
Definitely not my preferred option for hogging out the waste - gouges are generally far superior.
I'm not a bowl turner by any stretch of the imagination but I've been using scrapers on my few bowls ever since i started turning. I've only got 1 bowl gouge withh a swept back grind which doesn't really work when deep in a bowl. Hence the use of my scrapers. I believe scrapers were used for most types of turning hundreds of years ago when turners made their own tools or had them msde at the local blacksmiths.
Your bowl gouge will work fine with a different bevel or asymmetric grind. ruclips.net/video/idB-z6--FAs/видео.html. In pre-industrial times turners used hook tools and skew chisels, and still do in in many parts of the world.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning thank you for the advice. I'll try out changing the grind on my bowl gouge.
Robust makes one. I trusted that name.
??????? One what?
Do you have any recommendations on where I may be able to find an 80 grit CBN wheel?
Any of the specialist woodturning suppliers in Europe, North America, Australasia, and no doubt else where will have them. I use a Vicmarc CBN wheel.
I'll bet that sales of scrapers spike after the release of this video.
Richard, i was really nervous as you kept going thinner and thinner, especiall 36:40 y when your depth drill went in a bit more than you wanted. But, you pulled it off, and it was great.
Just how many tools do you have?
I duplicates of several, but these are what I use: ruclips.net/video/qAz1FfAtqmE/видео.html
Kind of like turning with the carbide tip tools except that when yours get dull you can sharpen them 😊
Carbide doesn't hold a decent edge for very long.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning …and that gets expensive
Good morning. Could you please do a video on sharpening for beginners? I don't have a lot of sharpening tools. (Skew chisel, Bowl gouge and spindle gouge) those are the tool I use the most.
There are several videos on sharpening in the Tools and Sharpening playlist ruclips.net/p/PLBAvwOB0lJTS-QyorpwWhSowzY9XZR5u_
I'm always impressed how much wood you remove with your scrapers. What angle do you have on your scrapers ? Thank for sharing your knowledge
Bevels are around 45 degrees getting steeper on the left wing of endgrain scrapers. ruclips.net/video/X5CkrbPr_7s/видео.html
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Amazing t ok see you try something so unconventional, especially after 54 years. I would love to see you explain what your lathe maintenance routine is. I admire how smoothly your banjo moves each time you make an adjustment and I’m curious if it’s due to routine maintenance tricks.
I do little more than wipe the lathe down after use. After turning green timber I'll wipe and spray-and-wipe using WD40 or lanolin. The rest banjo is occasionally sprayed with WD40. In this video I realized the drive belt needs tightening and that get done today.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thanks Richard. Not much different than how I approach it - good to know!
@@bigjgordon But it's not the best approach to turning a bowl. Gouges are way way more effecient as you'll see in most of my bowl videos.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturningCertainly. I would never have dreamed to attempt it, but it sure was fun watching you have a go! Thanks so much for being so generous with your time - it is so wonderful to see you do what I was only able to imagine in all your books!
A couple of things. When you were using the square end scraper, I kept thinking that it reminded me of the square carbide tools, in particular, roughing out the inside. Have you ever tried any carbides? Perfect opportunity for you to learn something new!
Also, when you are doing the shear scraping with the tool at an angle, is the tool rounded where it contacts the tool rest?
I've tried all manner of carbide tools since the late 1970s but never found any satisfactory for the sort of work I do, apart from the Kelton Hollowers I use for hollow forms with small openings.
Ideally you round the lower edge of a tool used for shear scraping so it slides easily along the rest. All my scrapers have rounded lower side edges.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning I rough turn my bowls with carbide .625 dia just so I don't have to sharpen as much.
You remind me of the actor Donald Pleasence.
Richard, when you came to shear scraping the rim towards the end. You turned down the speed. Was this to reduce the pressure on the tool, and thus on the rim?
Still loving all your videos.
Btw, do you source most of your wood from arborists
I reduced speed when turning the rim to reduce chatter and make a catch less explosive. Catches on a thin rim can disintegrate a bowl. All my wood now comes from garage sales and my local ACT Woodcraft Guild where there's a timber team processing logs for the benefit of members. When in production I purchased burls by the tonne from timber-getters or mills and for a few years cut my own in Tasmania under a craft licence.
(off topic) Richard how do you store your green/wet turned bowls?
That's the sort of stuff covered in my books. Basically they go into large boxes or stacks out of the sun but in a breeze or draught. I don't bother painting the endgrain, but keep a close eye on them for the first week. Any that start to split go back on the lathe to be finished green.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you Richard.
I believe you could turn with a shovel!
A broken one at that.
You’d make chips fly with a paper clip.
Hey, next time turn a bowl with a skew!
Crossgrain bowls can be turned using a skew chisel, but you risk spectacular catches and skews are not recommended on crossgrain. You can see a skew on an endgrain bowl in ruclips.net/video/EayQJu1jIvE/видео.html
Thanks Richard. Your use of scrapers helped me greatly improve my bowls. Much less sanding which increases the enjoyment. The shear scraping demonstrations are so helpful.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturningRichard, I can get a catch with a skew without even turning my lathe on!
I'm glad my wife didn't watch this. Otherwise, I would be told that I don't need more tools. He can do it all with just that couple. You're not helping with my collection.