Mark Kosmowski
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Well, I went to turning and hand tool seminars at the recent woodworking show co-located with Totally Turning this past weekend.
While playing on the lathe this week I had a thought. Does looking at the angle of attack that a cutting tool makes with the tangent of the round turned object as if the cutting tool were a plane iron have any usefulness? At one of the seminars I went to, I learned that low angle planes need less force to cut, but that high angle planes tend to leave a better finish.
Is there any usefulness in maybe using a low angle of attack tool for rough shaping and then using a high angle of attack tool for a finishing cut?
While playing on the lathe this week I had a thought. Does looking at the angle of attack that a cutting tool makes with the tangent of the round turned object as if the cutting tool were a plane iron have any usefulness? At one of the seminars I went to, I learned that low angle planes need less force to cut, but that high angle planes tend to leave a better finish.
Is there any usefulness in maybe using a low angle of attack tool for rough shaping and then using a high angle of attack tool for a finishing cut?