AWGB Woodturning Forum
General Category => Tool tips & reviews => Topic started by: Bryan Milham on June 22, 2013, 07:46:56 PM
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I post this as a follow-on to my promise of information in reply to Les' Oak burr N/E bowl.
I doubt this is original to me, certainly I've seen many people use the sanding arbour mounted in a Jacobs chuck shown in the first picture. However it's a method I fast learnt to dislike.
It did not have the reach for some of my deeper vases and any contact with the rotating metal could damage the turning.
So I made one out of wood, well several actually, all various lengths to give me different depths. I also have recently added the additional pad on the end I can make these with different hardnesses of foam so the can adapt to the shape they are sanding easier.
As they are made to fit the jaws of my chuck, I don't have to keep dismounting it.
One great advantage of using these to sand the bottom of a bowl or anything is; when the lathe rotates the wood, it has a centre of rotation, hence you can get sanding marks in rings; however by finish sanding with the extended arbour (which does the rotating), you keep moving it and hence no concentric rings in the bottom of your bowl and a better finish.
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One great advantage of using these to sand the bottom of a bowl or anything is
....that you don't get bloodied knuckles from trying to reach inside a narrow N/E bowl!
Thanks for the follow-up, Brian...I might well try that one out.
Les