Mark Jerde wrote:

I've never turned but am interested in it. What do I need to order, if
you
don't mind? Lathe, stand, chuck, chisels. (I have a scary-sharp setup.)

Depends on what you can make, Mark.

I have a lathe (JET mini), a shop-built stand. No chuck yet. Looks like I
need to remedy that almost immediately if I want to use up some small,
square 4/4 scraps for practicing. I have a super cheapo set of lathe tools
to start out with, and I'm glad I'm not using anything expensive, because
I'm doing a real number on them while making my first pathetic attempts at
getting them sharp.

Scary Sharp(tm) is pretty useless for this stuff. Too many curves, and the
consensus always seems to be that the way to do it is to grind and use,
without honing. Honing is said to be largely a waste of time for turning,
because tools need sharpening constantly.

That's my newbie take on it. I absolutely SUCK at turning so far. I've had
my lathe for a day and a half now, and I'm really beginning to wonder what
I've gotten myself into. Kinda wishing I'd bought the Veritas #6 foreplane
instead, truth be told, but hopefully I'm just caught up in a self pity
spiral, and I'll feel better about it in the morning.

I might cave in and take some classes, and I never take classes for
anything. I'm no longer convinced I can figure this out just from reading
books. It's like learning how to dance the macarena by following numbered
footsteps on the floor. The footsteps just don't tell the story by
themselves.

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