The Calico Bowl continued-the scraper has arrived

 Hi All,

Well the scraper for the Hollow Master arrived this afternoon. I use scrapers a lot to smooth and help finish the insides, and outsides, of bowls and boxes. Here's a couple of photos:

In this photo you can see the swan-neck tool that Robert Sorby makes. This was developed to hollow out deep turnings like vases and since the cutter at the tip is removable a scraper tip can be installed to help smooth the surfaces of bowls, etc:

                                    

 In this photo you can see the ridges that occur when hollowing out bowls and since most cutting tools have their cutting edges at the very tip of the tool shaft, that makes cutting and smoothing a deep bowl like this very difficult:

This round cutter can cut on all the sides of the cutter so getting to the sides of the bowl is a lot easier to do:

And here you can see the cutter installed on the tip of the shaft of the tool:

Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to take the bowl back down to the lathe and work on smoothing the inside of the bowl and also the outside. When that's done it will be time to put the finish on and mail this bowl to it's new owner.

And I'd like to give a big shout out to Craft Supplies USA in Provo, Utah for getting this scraper to me so quickly. Thanks!!!

Ok, see you all tomorrow,
VW