Description:The Munro Hollower is the culmination of over thirty years of experimentation with designs for hollowing tools. It has been designed around a robust and inexpensive 12mm circular cutting tip, which I have coupled with a stainless steel depth gauge.

The shaft of the tool is coupled with an aluminium handle, with a pleasingly tactile E.V.A. grip. The tools have an articulated cutting head , allowing for hollowing around corners and under shoulders of hollow forms.

Advantages:
The tool is very reasonably priced.

Tool tips are very hard wearing, other tool tips are up to ten times more expensive to replace. The cutter is of either high speed steel or tungsten carbide. As the tip is circular it needs less sharpening, and therefore lasts longer, it can be rotated a few degrees to expose a sharp area, only when the entire circle has been dulled does the tool need sharpening.

The Munro Hollower is easy to resharpen either by honing or by mounting it on the sharpening dowel which allows the cutter to rotate against a grind stone.

The short articulated cutter head allows the tool to be bent at sharper angles giving better access to the inside shoulder of hollow forms.

The tool has only one screw which needs to be slackened to make depth gauge adjustments.

Shavings vent upwards allowing the turner to monitor cutting performance visually, unlike other similar hollowing tools. This visibility is useful when learning to make very fine cuts.

Weight: The hollow aluminium handle is light, and gives excellent support when hollowing a very deep vessel, while leaving the user the option of adding ballast in the form of shot if required. The light weight of the handle means the tool is a dream to use on finer cuts where sensitivity is desirable. A knobbed screw in the ferrule of the handle allows the tool shaft to be moved back and forward easily according to the hollowing depth required, and allows for the quick changing of tool shafts.

Above:
A picture of the Munro Tool Mini.