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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.rec.wood
Subject: Re: Where are Woodworkers?
Message-ID: <2676@ncsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 12:37:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 12:37:01 1984
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Now that you mention it, I would like to ask a question about turning:
  Do I really need to shell out $50 or $60 for a high-speed steel superflute
  bowl gouge?

The shop at the student center here has a reasonable set of spindle turning
tools,  but if they have a bowl gouge they keep it hidden.  Reading Peter
Child's "The Craftsman Woodturner" gives the impression that making a bowl
without a deep-fluted gouge is impossible, and furthermore, that most bowl
gouges are the wrong shape.  The HSS gouge made by Henry Taylor to Child's
specifications seems to be the only choice.  For Peter Child, that is.
For occasional hobby turning, do I really need high-speed steel?  Is the
shape of lower-priced gouges (Sorby, for example) acceptable?

As for the carpentry controversy, well, everyone knows that all carpenters
do is nail 2 by 4's together to make a framework for the drywall.  
Cabinetmaking (joining pieces of particleboard and covering them with
wood-grain vinyl) is much more interesting.
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_Doctor_                           Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney
\__Mu__/                           North Carolina State University