If anyone has read any of my threads you know I'm a new turner.

I thought I was making progress going up the learning curve of turning until today. Because today, I decided to start turning a 6 inch bowl out of a piece of dry honey locust I picked up some time ago. I knew it was different and probably harder than the cherry, ash and silver maple I've been working with simply because of its weight.

Although I sharpened my tools before starting roughing this blank, this piece of wood was so hard that I had to resharpen my tools several times just to shape the outside of the bowl. The grain is very nice and the bowl should look really striking when done, but I can already tell this bowl is going to take a while to finish.

So is it me and my lack of experience or is this wood real hard and tough on tools? Or a little bit of both?

I just need to know.

Thank you