George,

You are a good man (woodturner) indeed if you can turn Styrofoam with a skew
chisel. You have my respect! Right on!

Barry


"George" george@least wrote in message
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"Leo Lichtman" wrote in message
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"grB" wrote: (clip) Mostly out of balsa, basswood, and pine; pretty soft
stuff. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm surprised no one else has brought this up: your main problem is not
going to be with the lathe itself. It's going to be a challenge to
sharpen
your tools well enough to cut these soft woods--especially balsa.



Not as bad as you may believe, Leo. We even turned foam for the bottle
rocket event at Science Olympiad. It's skew work, mostly.