2020 Product Showcase: Easy Wood Tools

So there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the world. And one of the byproducts of that is the big show in Atlanta, IWF was canceled for this year. So we're compensating here in my shop. What's what's going on here Well we've got a bunch of bunch of products here that we're going to test out and show How they work. Yeah. - We're teachers talk about them and then I think what's going to be fun. Is, Is that showing them, showing them how they worked? Yeah. We're going to, we're going to run the tools and take you through features benefits. So we're bringing the show, the woodworking show to you. Ready to get rolling? I'm ready. Let's go. Easy wood tool is the next manufacturer that we're working with here. And you've been doing some turning. I know, shop a lave is a kind of a recent addition through you know, like it like turning bowls. Yeah. We just, my, we just started picked up a lave two months ago. I think now I've been doing, I did pans and some handles. I had a little, little mini lave before that, but yeah the bowls are a lot of fun. So actually I'll tell you, my, my wife has gotten into it. She is now a full fledged member of the business. She is making bowls. We're going to be selling them soon. That's the hope I like she's way better than me. So don't So to be real specific with where we're going with this one we are going to talk about four different layers chisels. And the first three are all about hollowing. And we're going to do some of that here on this poll. We'll talk more about that in a bit. So with easy woods line of Halloween chisels these are now the largest and the line. So there are other chisels available. If you're doing smaller scale work you can do use the smaller scale tools for that. So what we're going to do is go through a sequence of events here which would be when we first start the hollowing process you're going to start with this tool. Then we'll talk more about what that process looks like. We get to a point where we need to start to reach around the corner, and then we're going to come to this tool to begin that reach, to start to wrap around then in order to get further, reach this one's got more of a hook to it and that's going to let us come around the corner even more. So these chisels are all about hollow hollow vessels. Now, one of the things that's worth talking about is on the karbite on these, we can go two different ways. We can go with a standard karbite cutter or what is called a negative rake cutter. I do have the negative rate cutters on here. And the reason is that we would use the negative rate cutters definitely on anything was made out of epoxy. If you've done a, if you do a bowl that's made out of resin I'm also using the negative rakes today because this bowl is Indian Rosewood and it is a very, very hard wood. And the other benefit to the negative rakes is that when we get against up against a hard and dense wood like this, they're going to perform much better less catchy, less grabby, much easier to work with. The other tool that we're going to have a look at is a parting tool. And in particular, with this parting tool it's got a very thin curve to it. And when we get to this, we're going to change projects. And I'll talk more about what I see as the benefit to a thin curve partying to it like that. So, one thing that I was, I pointed this out earlier because being a newbie like, and not getting the Beal for these tools too, I did like that. They, they throw the label, they put labels on here so we can help you set up too, which is, I love on that. Well, because we do have to be careful about how much or how little we're cantilevering the tool pass the tool arrest in too little would be on these hooks. We don't want to be way out here on the tool rest cause we're not going to have this stability that we want. So they've clearly marked this to this as your zone. So here we have stability. If we get way out beyond this point on the two arrests we're going to have too much leverage out here and it's going to be not safe to use the tool. So match. Right. It's really nice when you're learning. - Yeah Instead of trying to gut your way through that it's giving you a clear distinction a clear marking of where we want to be Because there's nothing like destroying a nice tool, right? We don't want to do that. And these are massive too. Like this is a, there's a lot to hold on to. It's a great tool. Yeah. I like it. Now with this bowl we're talking about hollow vessels, hallow forms. And I do have, I've done a lot of hollow forms. And on this one, I intentionally went with a much bigger neck on this than I normally would typically on a hollow form I'd be in somewhere around two inches or so or less. And you can imagine, especially on a narrow opening like that, the necessity of then having these tools. So you can reach in for tonight. I specifically opened this up wider than I normally would so that it would be easier for you to see the cutting action on the tool. If I have a really narrow neck on this, when I'm reaching in there, you can't see what the tool is doing. So here's, what's going to happen. We're going to start out your hallowing with this tool. And we would come in and reach as far as we can get as much wind as we can out with this. And in this case with the nature of this bowl I can get some of my tool rest inside there to give me some additional support. So just like I normally would I'm going to go ahead and start with this one. And then we'll look at the transition to the other tools. One of the things that's cool about this. I like when I see shavings coming off instead of dust cause that tells us we have a nice sharp tool and shavings means we're back to the S word shaving means less sanding when this whole thing is done. So it's great seeing those big curls come off. So this tool starts to open this up and we're going to reach in like I would just do in there now again on a real narrow neck, we would get to a point where the geometry of this is such that I just can't do any more work with this because as I come across the inside of the bowl, this part of the chisel would start to hit part of that narrow neck. Again, I intentionally went with a big opening so you could see that cutting action. So now when we get to that point where the geometry is I'm running out of space then we're going to go to the next tool. And it is important to use these correctly. Like we were talking about just a little bit ago correctly being this flat is going to sit on the tool rest. And that helps keep this nice and stable. And the line on here is telling me not to cantilever it out too far. It's helping me watch what I'm doing and doing. So then with this tool we can start coming around that corner. And undercutting is what is the way to think about this. We're going to undercut this rim in order to start turning this into a hollow vessel. The natural progression of things will be, I'll get to a point where, because of the hook that's available on this chisel, I can only get so far. So then we're going to get more, reach additional reach by going to this hook. Right. I can do more under cutting And is there a hallow vessel in your future? I made a little one. I don't know. We'll see what happens. I gotta, I got to invest in small tools, small baby steps. Yeah. It's a hollow vessels are challenging but they're really fun to do. It's so cool when they come out. Right. And, and really with conventional lave chisels there's just no good way to reach around the corner. Like I did here and start undercutting that rent. I'm going to change projects so we can show the other cutter. And then the other tool I'm making a lidded box and what's going to happen. The sequence of events is the boxes to a point where I can part the lid off and the lid will then again become integral to the box when it's all done. This is a case where I really really liked these thin curve partying tools because when this is done it is finished on it because I made it all from one piece. This is cherry. The grain is going to flow top to bottom and the less would I have to take out in order to part the lid, the better grain flow I'm going to have across this. So I'm going to just turn without talking here but I'll tell you what I'm about to do. The first thing I'm going to do is use this tool in order to create a shoulder on the bottom of the lid. And eventually when the bottom of this thing gets hallowed that shoulder is what'll engage in the hollow in order to keep the lid on right below that shoulder then I'm going to come in and I'm going to start to part it. Then, then at the very end of that, when it's real close to being done, I'll take the tail stack out of the way and we'll just park the lid right off of this thing. So step one, a little bit of a shoulder That's really engage in the base. Now we can park. And then the reason I left the tail stack in place initially is it allows me to be a little bit more aggressive. Let me move this. Got it. Come on, baby. There we go. It lets me be a little bit more aggressive with my cut. Thank you sir. I haven't had in place, but now when we're ready to finish I don't want to have the lid caught between my tool and the tail step Nice. And that's the karbite cutter too. Yeah. And that's what I'm thank you for bringing that up. Yeah. As I was cutting, I was thinking, I forgot to say that like other easy wood tools, this is another it's a karbite tip and replaceable. So we don't sharpen any of these when they're cutting life is done. They're going to swap the tip out altogether. So one of the things that's cool about that in the world of turning is you're you're at the late turning instead of at a grinder sharpening. So it keeps you doing what you like the best which is cutting woods. Yeah. So I think we did a pretty good job of bringing the show to the people to get did you enjoy this tonight? I had a blast. It was fun. You know, I learned, I learned something. Hopefully they learn something, you know, how did you have fun? Yeah. It was a lot of fun. And I think it's one of the things I really like about my job is the opportunity to see tools and then take my excitement about that and telegraphing that. So hopefully that happened. Yeah. No, I hear ya. That's I love it. I love this. It's always fun. Well, thanks so much for coming along and yeah, it was a blast