I can't seem to get it very smooth with either a bowl or spindle gouge. Maybe not sharp enough?
how would this set be?
http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LCSIXW.html
For what it's worth, I happened across this Laguna video with Alan Batty last night:Right around 7:30 he says,
"If you work in bigger diameters, and you've got a problem with your skew, use the roughing out gouge with a back wing [whatever that is], and it'll leave the surface like glass ... you won't need to even use a skew."
I assume that he's talking about spindle work - not face work. Which way are drums turned?
I have been dissapointed with Benjamins Best. I bought one to replace, and in hopes of improving on an antique 'cast steel' Buck brand and an El Cheapo import. I keep putting down the BB and picking up the antique. I haven't tried the cryo/kryo but Vaughn has turned a thing or three with them and they aren't being used for tomato stakes yet.