Dan Mosley
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I bought some supplies awhile back and they had a sale on some tools so I picked up this Dovetail tool with my purchase. It has been sitting around and I have never used it as I usually make my own dovetails with my Ci1. Even then its few and far between because I usually make a flat bottom to my vessels and bowls with a slight concave in them.
Of the times I have made a dovetail bottom I had a heck of a time getting rid of the black that the jaws put on the wood from the holding in expansion mode. Some say it comes off easy with Lemon juice but I have not tried it. I am going to make a few large turnings soon and thought I would make a dovetail bottom on them but I need a better understanding of the use of the tool.
Questions:
1) - How do you sharpen the tool ? looks a bit complicated compared to the normal turning tools
2) - Do you have to go in as deep as the shoulder of the tool ? It seems it would be a awful deep dovetail
3) - I was told that you do not have to tigthen it up very hard but to just make sure it is snugged up good to avoid spliting the bottom. Sound right ?
Anybody else experience the black marks from the jaws I mentioned ?
Of the times I have made a dovetail bottom I had a heck of a time getting rid of the black that the jaws put on the wood from the holding in expansion mode. Some say it comes off easy with Lemon juice but I have not tried it. I am going to make a few large turnings soon and thought I would make a dovetail bottom on them but I need a better understanding of the use of the tool.
Questions:
1) - How do you sharpen the tool ? looks a bit complicated compared to the normal turning tools
2) - Do you have to go in as deep as the shoulder of the tool ? It seems it would be a awful deep dovetail
3) - I was told that you do not have to tigthen it up very hard but to just make sure it is snugged up good to avoid spliting the bottom. Sound right ?
Anybody else experience the black marks from the jaws I mentioned ?