"Mike Marlow" wrote:
Mike M wrote:
It's my sisters birthday, so I turned a few things for her. The
surprize was remembering all the maple rounds I had stored in one of
the sheds fo future use. Turns out it's developed some nice spalting.

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Mike M

Just don't understand how you guys do that stuff. You putz around with
tools that point in the wrong direction, spin blocks of wood around and then
stick sharp things in their path, and somehow turn out really nice looking
stuff. If that were me, the outcome of my efforts would be called
schrapnel...

I have said this a few times lately, the new carbide tipped turning tools
have a near zero learning curve. I have 3 and replaced all of my 15 or so
other traditional turning tools.