[crw-talk] Photos to start conversation

[John & Donna Griffiths]

Indeed, there is a bit of finesse required but not a lot. You are 
working on an open mouthed space, it tapers to large at the mouth.  They 
won't do hollow forms, you can't get the cutter in at the right angle 
for a cut.  They have to be really sharp.  You can kind of cut with a 
kind of dull gouge but not with the hook.  Most of us love a really nice 
trail of shavings flying off the tool, and the hook tool gives that.  
When it is cutting well, the shavings are long and thick so wouldn't 
blow out of a small hole with compressed air either.

I would volunteer to do a club demo when it is safe for us to meet.  
(Board members, are you listening?)

The hook tool making demo was before my time.  My efforts to build one 
failed, should have annealed the steel after hardening, so I bought one 
on line and built a shaft and handle to mount it.

On 10/19/2020 2:29 PM, Robert Patros wrote:
> I remember making a hook tool at one of our meetings. It took a bit of finesse to get a good cut.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Oct 19, 2020, at 1:48 PM, John & Donna Griffiths <griff at mwt.net> wrote:
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>> Members, I am sending a few photos of a yarn bowl I recently made of a cherry log.  It is about 6" diameter at the top and perhaps 6" tall.  I turned it in spindle orientation and hollowed mostly with a hook tool, then finished up with a negative rake scraper. Cut the "J" shaped hole for yarn with a Forstner bit in a hand drill and a saber saw then finished with spray-on Polycrylic brand finish.  I am going to TRY to send a seperate brief video of me using the hook tool to make a walnut yarn bowl that is currently in the process of finish application.
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>> Please discuss and share your comments with everyone.  Thanks, John
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