Setting Bowl Depth for Woodturning

Video Transcript

"At this point what we want to do is set the depth of the bowl. How deep we want to make it. In this case I'm using a drill, long drill bit that's mounted on a handle, and I'll bring it in so that, giving myself about a quarter of an inch of space. The bottom, the outside bottom being this line, and going in maybe a quarter inch, three sixteenths. Take a piece of tape and mark that point. I've reduced this, put the speed on the lathe at a much lower speed with the tool set so that the point of the drill bit is in the center. I just bring it and push the, push the drill bit in pulling it out occasionally to clear the chips, until I reach the tape. This will give me a depth, a known depth that I'm going for so that I don't go too deep and go through the bottom of the bowl."