What wood turning chisel is used to cut the corners off a square piece with a lathe?

Answer 1

I'd be inclined to do this with a fairly large diameter roughing gouge at fairly low speed. (A gouge is the chisel that, if you look at it end on, has a profile kind like the letter "C")

"The Lathe Book" by Ernie Conover has this to say:
"The roughing-out gouge is used primarily to bring square or odd-shaped work round ... Traditionally, a roughing-out gouge was just a very large spindle gouge, ground square on the end rather than to a fingernail point. Since high-speed steel is difficult to forge, today's HSS version of this tool is a piece of flat stock bent into a U. If anything, this modern version works better because the corners are well out of the way and less likely to catch ... roughing out gouges are commonly available in widths from 3/4" to 1 1/2"."

Here's a photo of a gouge:
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=421

You're wise to ask this particular question. LOL, I used to know someone who'd use a skew chisel to do roughing, and he had all sorts of "interesting" things happen - the skew would do a great job of grabbing at the wood, so sometimes he'd get really bad chipout. Other times he had either the block of wood or the chisel fly across the shop. He was, um, an "interesting" person ... he also liked to fire a mega-soaker water gun up at the power lines to scare off squirrels, often narrowly missing the high voltage line at the top.

Answer 2

A gouge...and make sure the lathe is turning verrrrry slowly. It also helps if you run the square piece through a table saw with the blade set to a 45-degree angle and saw the corners off.. That gets rid of a lot of wood that you would have to turn on the lathe.

Answer 3

They sell a tool which vibrates 12,000 times a minute that can cut through wood. That would be ideal for your project. Or you can drill the wood with an auger and ream out the corners with a chisel. If you would rather use a reciprocating saw for the corners, this would also work. The next option would be to glue pieces of wood together to form a box. Where there's a will there's a way. Put your thinking cap on.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

use a big gouge and go slowly and take your time as your not cuttin all the surface at once