On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 5:53:27 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
I was turning a bowl this afternoon from a piece of fruit wood (in the
basement for 20 years and species unknown). I shear scraped the outside
and got an generally good finish but there were some areas of fine
tear-out that even light shear cuts would not remove. So I thoroughly
wetted the surface to make the fibres swell in those areas and then gave
a light shear-scrape while it was still wet. The waste was mostly in the
form of a slurry rather than shavings and the finish was superb over the
tricky areas.
Graham

I will have to try this. Tear out has been a constant problem for me, even with shear scraping.