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1. Special Saburr carbide cutting tool created with Stuart Mortimer
Regular shoppers at The ToolPost, or even just many of you who drop in at our Didcot
showroom/shop from time to time, will know that we take great pride in working alongside some
of the undoubted woodturning great and good to help our customers become better woodturners
themselves. Such help may take the form of our highly rated events and demonstrations like the
Spring and Autumn Open Houses, but it can also result in new and interesting products.
One such product that you'll only find at The ToolPost is the special Saburr carbide cutting tool
that we have created with Stuart Mortimer. He is a man who requires little introduction among
the many woodturners across the United Kingdom and the world who have long admired his
elegant hollow forms, twisted goblets, vases and Mortimer eggs. Indeed, the Hampshire resident
and retired Police Inspector produced his first twisted goblet in 1969, and his creations have
since become synonymous with almost every kind of spiral form.
It is that very spiral form that is aspired to by many up-and-coming woodturners, and Stuart has
long worked hard himself to encourage young people into the woodturning craft, including
through the private woodturning group that he formed in 1992. But it has also inspired his recent
collaboration with The ToolPost, resulting in our new tool that is specifically designed to simplify
and speed up the cutting through of a hollow form to create the bines of a spiral form. It's called
the SM250 cutting disc, and we couldn't be more delighted to announce that production
quantities are now in stock.
This cutting disc has benefitted from extensive product testing by Stuart himself. The "bines" that
form the structural part of a spiral work are created by cutting through into a vessel's hollow
core. The timber is gradually reduced in bulk and its shape developed to create the spiral
elements. An angle grinder is the best tool for easily cutting through the vessel, with compact
devices like the mini Arbortech or the Proxxon LWS - also available from The ToolPost - being
most strongly recommended.
However, this task is only made even easier by our new bine cutting disc developed with
Mortimer, created to his specification. It also facilitates the subsequent shaping and refinement
of the bines, making it a wise investment for any woodturner aiming to produce spiral forms on a
par with those of the great man.