Are you skewing the cut or cutting at right angles to the rotation? The
skewed cut clears the shaving, the other tends to pack. Also, make sure
you're cutting downhill, smaller to larger diameter. Sometimes we forget
when we're doing the close end, that downhill's still center outward.

"Larry" wrote in message
om...
I just bought the tool yesterday, tried it out and I'm very
frustrated. If I set the gap very small (1/16-1/32) to take a fine
cut it immediately clogs. This is in kiln dried padauk and bubinga.
It seems to clog in air dried black walnut even with the gap set to
1/4 and this setting is way too agressive for me. I tried sharpening
it with a diamond hone in case it came dull out of the factory, but no
luck. Am I doing something wrong or should I just take it back?