Woodturning: Hollowform with Woodcut Pro-Forme tools

Making an elm hollowform with Woodcut Pro-Forme tools!

This is absolutely one of my favorites things: making hollowform vases! And i just bought this awesome Woodcut Pro-Forme hollowing system and it is by far the best I've tried. It's super stable, high quality and just super effective.. And super expensive, but whatever. You get what you pay for. That's just how it is. Turning this vessel on my Killinger 1450SE woodturning lathe.

Recently, I got a few nice elm logs (Ulmus glabra) and thought it would be about time to make a bigger vessel. Elm is really unforgiving.. You make tool handles of this and it's hard! It's also tough as it's fed up with silica that is hard on the tools. They need sharpening waaay more than the usual trees I work with. And this took me a full day.. Haha, as you can see in the end, I struggle to keep the tool steady, because of the distance from the tool rest to the tip of the tool. There's so much tension and power that you'll end up beaten if you aren't focusing.

Now this piece needs to dry for 4-6 weeks.

00:06 - Woodcut Pro-Forme
00:22 - Adjusting the gauge
00:35 - Elm block
01:04 - Mounting the faceplate
01:34 - Mounting the log
02:22 - Make it stable and in balance
03:34 - Shaping the vessel
04:56 - Mounting the chuck
05:20 - Off with the faceplate
05:40 - Rebalance
06:02 - Drill out the center
06:45 - Woodcut hollowing
08:20 - Bad catch and re adjusting of the gauge
09:10 - Go on with it..
10:10 - More drilling
10:36 - More hollowing
11:10 - Oh, the struggle is real..
11:28 - Measuring over and over, all the time
11:49 - Done..
12:13 - Wrap it up for 48 hours
12:47 - and then in a paperbag for 4-6 weeks



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