Turning Lathe
What Wood Turning chisel is used to cut the corners off a square piece with a lathe?
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.
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