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So where do you guys land on this? Are you scrapers or cutters when
spindle turning? And of course the big question... why?

I'm a scraper. Probably because I did flat work before ever using a lathe,
and very often the only way to get a reasonable finish on gnarly stock is
with a card scraper. When I got to the lathe it just seemed sensible to use
what I knew.