Favorite lathe tool

[bryan stanley]

What is your favorite tool to use on the lathe and why? Typically I like to use a carbide insert chucked up in a pair of vise grips. This allows me better control when turning aluminum and brass. Plus I can change inserts at will without the use of other tools.

Bryan

[Scott Hackler]

uh.. am I missing something or do you realize this is a woodworking forum? (btw, nice business plug at the end of the video)
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[bryan stanley]

I turn wood the same way, pretty aggressive.

[Frank Drew]

For spindle turning, I like the skew, but I had a number of them with different blade geometries.

For faceplate/bowl turning, I guess the normal HSS 1/2" bowl gouge -- it's such a workhorse.

[Neil Strong]

Typically I like to use a carbide insert chucked up in a pair of vise grips.


Now that's differen't!...:D

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[Scott Lux]

If favorite means the one I like the most, it's my 3/8" bowl gouge. If it means what I use the most, it's sandpaper. :o

[Kyle Iwamoto]

If favorite means the one I like the most, it's my 3/8" bowl gouge. If it means what I use the most, it's sandpaper. :o

+1 on sandpaper, 80 grit being my "favorite" followed closely by that 3/8" (or 1/2" american) bowl gouge....

I have to add that visegrips/carbide seems sketchy at best.

[John Hart]

My favorite tool is my Ugly Stick. Not because it is the greatest thing in the world...but because I made it myself...it is what I learned to turn with....and I will probably pass it on to my kids as an ugly memento.

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....and I still use it...in fact I used it last night on the inside shoulder of a vase.

[Michael James]

The sharpest one suitable for the cut im attempting. I'm really trying to befriend the skew. Im beginning to rationalize that the "catch and run" effect can be used as a decorative effect, if properly sanded!:cool:
OK, it's early, I need coffee....sorry

[Tim Rinehart]

My favorite tool is my Ugly Stick. Not because it is the greatest thing in the world...but because I made it myself...it is what I learned to turn with....and I will probably pass it on to my kids as an ugly memento.

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....and I still use it...in fact I used it last night on the inside shoulder of a vase.

John, John, John...that thing looks like it was forged in the bowels of hell.

OK, I for one really like it! What character it has...kinda like, "well, he/she has a nice personality".
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[Prashun Patel]

My favorite tool is my Ugly Stick.

That thing is weathered, worn, and utterly beautiful.

[John Hart]

John, John, John...that thing looks like it was forged in the bowels of hell....

heh heh...It probably was, Tim :)

You see...there was this Pear tree in the back yard....old sucker. I had to cut it down and dig out the stump. Down under the root structure, there was a 1940 penny...in perfect green patina condition, and an old chisel with the wood rotted off.
I have the penny sitting on my desk in front of me right now, and the chisel became the ugly stick.

Oh..and I still have this platter from the pear tree, now residing in the new library.
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(It's entitled "Worm Guts In A Pear Tree")
The original thread http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=20384&highlight=worm+guts