I'm not sure they consider it a spindle roughing gouge but it is a roughing gouge but the end grain thing is confusing. Whenever you turn a bowl the tool sees end grain twice per revolution so technically, yes I suppose. After I get the rough shape I change to riding the bevel to smooth the cut but will often do that with the roughing gouge just because I already have it and it does as good of a job on the bevel as anything else if it is sharp,.
I should add that on the outside I used the "spindle" roughing gouge but for the inside I used a 3/8" traditional bowl gouge. I was jsut thinking that a lot of people seemt o conszider the inside of a bowl as the "end grain" though it also is really end grain twice per rotation.
Now you got me wondering if this is pure semantics, or an error there. I never called the gouge I use on the outside of a bowl a spindle roughing gouge, just a roughing gouge because that's all I have done with it the 15 years or so I have owned that one. It's entirely possible that I am wrong (like that would be new!) but it works fine, roughs things out like its name and all used to be happy in my world.......
I'm not sure they consider it a spindle roughing gouge but it is a roughing gouge but the end grain thing is confusing. Whenever you turn a bowl the tool sees end grain twice per revolution so technically, yes I suppose. After I get the rough shape I change to riding the bevel to smooth the cut but will often do that with the roughing gouge just because I already have it and it does as good of a job on the bevel as anything else if it is sharp,.
I should add that on the outside I used the "spindle" roughing gouge but for the inside I used a 3/8" traditional bowl gouge. I was jsut thinking that a lot of people seemt o conszider the inside of a bowl as the "end grain" though it also is really end grain twice per rotation.
Now you got me wondering if this is pure semantics, or an error there. I never called the gouge I use on the outside of a bowl a spindle roughing gouge, just a roughing gouge because that's all I have done with it the 15 years or so I have owned that one.
It's entirely possible that I am wrong (like that would be new!) but it works fine, roughs things out like its name and all used to be happy in my world.......
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Who's Tim?
Its tom is it not?