tjchigh71 said:
Thanks for the advice.
Not having what I would call a tearout problem as much as an end grain problem. Seems to be on the inside rims / along sides of bowls just above where the side meets the bottom on two oposite sides.
What you describe is the classic tearout problem. Main thing you can do to help yourself is forget turning corners so rapidly. It's a setup for tearout or bevel bruising.
Going back to the three P's, you need to poke across the endgrain on as narrow a face as possible, and try to avoid that abrupt change of direction if you can. That will allow you to get some reasonable paring going around the transition and avoid the bruises you can get from digging the heel in a too small radius. Otherwise you may poke with a pointed tool to the bottom, than change both direction and perhaps the tool at the transition.
You should not have this problem on convex surfaces, because you have all the room in the world to change cutting angle to increase the poke as you approach 90 degrees to the grain. Don't know what type of gouge you're using, but I find shallow profile to be the best at getting the exit cut at 90 degrees while keeping a reasonable paring reference on the bevel to avoid ridging.
The shaving you want, whether exterior or interior, is one which is feathered at the trailing edge, indicating that you're making the final exit at the smallest face possible. If I can find a picture, I'll post later.
If your problem is not classic tearout, which is to say it is on the endgrain prior to 12 or 6 o'clock rather than after, then you may be suffering from bevel bruise coming off the slick face into the end while pressing too hard. Position is one way of recognizing it, other is to wipe with some mineral spirits. Bruises stay light, tears look dark. Easy and obvious answer is to press less, though, as mentioned above, you may have curves smaller than the capability of your shortest radius gouge to contend with, and that's a setup.
