"Bruce Barnett" wrote in message
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Let me add to this. Every tool set that "comes free with the lathe" has a
V-pointed tool that is beveled on the bottom.

Does this tool have a name?
Does anyone use it?

and if not, why is it always included?
Is this an urban myth tool?

It's called a spear point
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000FVE...438433-8048134

You can use it as a scraper to do what a bruzze was designed to do, as an
extremely catchy skew, or grind it straight across and with a long bevel to
make a splendid bead cutter and surface planer.

I'd guess it's there for the same reason they include other scraping tools.
Easier to scrape than cut for new folks.