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What are your go to turning tools?
For bowl work I do probably 90+% with the 5/8" gouge and a 1" round nose scraper. The exception being some detail work where I can't fit those in (small beads, or really small vessels) where I use a couple of smaller gouges.
For spindles I'm 90+% using a 3/4" roughing gouge and a 1.25" skew for 90+% of spindle work. Exceptions are I was using a smaller skew to undercut rings but them made myself a couple of ring tools out of some allen wrenches (and haven't used the small skew since) and coves which I still use the spindle gouge for (and I recently tried cutting some beads with the spindle gouge but didn't find it a whole lot easier than the skew since I'd forced myself to learn the skew first). I've also used the bowl gouge for some spindle work, it makes a passable spindle gouge and allows a higher angle of attack if you need it sometimes.
I've been thinking some sort of hollowing rig would be useful but haven't been able to bring myself to spring for one yet.
In general I've been finding that I mostly like to use the largest tool that can "fit". Its more stable, you have more edge to cut with which allows changing your presentation more easily, and are easier to get the angle correct anyway as you have more tool to "read" off of.
This of course means I have a small collection of other tools that don't see daylight very often They all seemed useful when I got them somehow.. but it seems that the more I turn the less I use. Eventually I expect to be turning bowls with the skew somehow...
For bowl work I do probably 90+% with the 5/8" gouge and a 1" round nose scraper. The exception being some detail work where I can't fit those in (small beads, or really small vessels) where I use a couple of smaller gouges.
For spindles I'm 90+% using a 3/4" roughing gouge and a 1.25" skew for 90+% of spindle work. Exceptions are I was using a smaller skew to undercut rings but them made myself a couple of ring tools out of some allen wrenches (and haven't used the small skew since) and coves which I still use the spindle gouge for (and I recently tried cutting some beads with the spindle gouge but didn't find it a whole lot easier than the skew since I'd forced myself to learn the skew first). I've also used the bowl gouge for some spindle work, it makes a passable spindle gouge and allows a higher angle of attack if you need it sometimes.
I've been thinking some sort of hollowing rig would be useful but haven't been able to bring myself to spring for one yet.
In general I've been finding that I mostly like to use the largest tool that can "fit". Its more stable, you have more edge to cut with which allows changing your presentation more easily, and are easier to get the angle correct anyway as you have more tool to "read" off of.
This of course means I have a small collection of other tools that don't see daylight very often They all seemed useful when I got them somehow.. but it seems that the more I turn the less I use. Eventually I expect to be turning bowls with the skew somehow...