We cut end grain, side grain, knots, and bark inclusions.  We like controlled precision cuts and excel at cutting very hard dense woods.

After all this you stagger out with difficulty to the table with the betel nut and leaf. As you’re chewing on this you ruminate on the terrible trouble you’re going to have with your digestive system the next day. If you’re on a weight loss program, you’re also dreading the 20 km. that you’ll have to walk to shed this lunch (assuming 1000 calories, 50 calories per km.)

Our woodturning tools are not just for Americans. Friends in Europe can now get their purchases shipped straight from the UK.

A dietitian’s nightmare ! The meal has at least 15 accessories (count the number on the leaves in the pictures) that are served first. This is followed by rice, sambar, more rice, rasam, ‘payasam’ (kheer), even more rice, and curds. Typically served on a banana leaf, the nice aesthetics of the banana leaf nowadays being neutralized by plastic water bottles, plastic glasses, and a plastic ‘table cloth’.

Having said all that, however, there’s nothing like a good wedding lunch to improve your mood. So anyone out there having a wedding with too few guests and too much food ordered by mistake ? Call me for help!

The Hunter Tool uses a very fine grain of carbide specifically engineered to meet the sharp tooling requirements demanded by the woodturning community. Our woodturning tools are simply unmatched in the industry.

Wondering where to get started when shopping for woodturning tools? Picking the right Hunter tool does not have to be complicated, so we’ve narrowed it down for you by the type of project you could be working on:

If you’re planning to get married many times in your life (like Glynn Wolfe, with his 29 marriages), a tungsten carbide ring would be a good idea to save money by not buying a new ring for each new marriage. It’ll be totally scratch proof, being an 8.5 on the Moh’s scale of hardness (versus Diamond’s 10). Each time a marriage breaks up (a marriage can either break up or break down, and they both mean the same thing – peculiar, right ?) and the spouse chucks his/her ring back at you, you just pick it up, dust it off, and give it to the next one – no scratches, shining like brand new.

If you like to turn small hollow forms such as hollow globe Christmas ornaments, boxes, ort bowls or other small hollowed items the #1 Taper 3-piece set is an excellent choice. The #1 Taper straight tool can open up a hollow form to provide room for the swan neck #1 Taper back tool (or shoulder tool) or the #1 Taper C-hook tool. The #1 Taper shoulder tool allows controlled access to the area around the opening under the shoulder of a hollow form. The #1 Taper C-hook tool cleans up the belly of small hollow forms. Once the swan neck tools have done their jobs, the #1 Taper straight tool can clean up the bottom and thin that area.

If you’re thinking, “Hey, this stuff looks so beautiful, maybe I should start making jewellery out of it and become rich”, I have bad news for you. Someone already beat you to it. Tungsten carbide jewellery is quite popular already, for more or less the same reasons that we use it in metal cutting. Because of its hardness, a ring or bracelet made from Tungsten Carbide will not lose its lustre (unlike silver or gold), will never need polishing, and is scratch-proof. Also it is hypo-allergenic, which means you can’t be allergic to it, like some people are allergic to Silver or Gold jewellery (they’re actually allergic to the traces of Nickel in these).

For larger projects involving side grain and face grain, such as bowls and platters, the Hunter #2 Osprey and the #3 Hercules are great choices. The #3 Hercules can be used to rough down the gnarliest burls and the hardest blanks. Built on a 5/8” square shank, the #3 Hercules has the mass and the strength to control the downward shocks and interruption of roughing cuts, yet will leave a finish approaching finish quality. The #3 Hercules is ideal for rough turning green wood and finish cuts on seasoned wood. The #2 Osprey operates like a gouge with a razor sharp carbide tip. Just like a gouge the Osprey can be rotated on its round shaft to its “sweet spot” and peel off fine shavings, forming coves and beads and smoothing flat surfaces with ease.

Here’s the secret behind Tungsten Carbide insert colors. Plain tungsten carbide is grey, and various other colors are the result of the coating material. If the insert has multiple coatings, the color is that of the topmost coating. Here are the colors corresponding to various materials.

For boxes, bowls with undercut rims, vases and other hollow forms, the long and strong Hunter Badger #5 straight and swan neck tools are the best choices. Both tools are fabricated on round 5/8” shafts with tapers near the cutting edge where 3/8” round carbide cutters do the work. The Badger #5 Straight tool can hollow to the user’s desired depth and open up the form to provide room for the Badger #5 Swan neck. The Badger swan neck has the perfect shape to reach under the rim of boxes or hollow forms for difficult under cuts. The strength of the shaft on both tools helps to eliminate chatter which results in cleaner cuts and less sanding.

Looking for tools to use on small spindle turnings such as pens, bottle stoppers or other small projects? Hunter Tools offers two good choices; the #1 Hercules and the #1 Osprey. New turners will find the #1 Hercules easy to use as it is built on a 3/8” square shank which helps control the razor sharp carbide cutter. The #1 Osprey is a 3/8” round shank tool and works just like a traditional gouge. Both tools allow the user to turn cleanly cut coves, beads, roughing cuts or finish cuts.