There are several cutting tools for mini wood lathe which are:
Lathe tools are called knives or chisels. They shape is long, round, curved handles to afford a solid grip and sufficient leverage to enable the turner to control the cutting edge accurately with minimal fatigue. Here are a few of the many types turning tools you may find:
- Gouges. These usually have specially shaped cutting edges for performing particular cuts, such as bowl gouges, with concave, curved cutting edges to form the smooth, curved surface of a bowl, orvee, or knurling gouges for cutting grooves or knurls in wooden spindles.
- Scrapers. These are often flat or slightly curved chisels for removing wood from flat or cylindrical shapes, or for roughing out a shape.
- Spoon cutters have a spoon shaped cutting edge and are also often used forshaping bowls.
- Other tools you may encounter are skew chisels, fluted gouges, spindle gouges, and nose chisels.
