I've spent the last 2 years plus building a pair of serpentine dressers and am now into the French Polish finishing.
Of course, we period furniture snobs would never think of joinery other than hand cut dovetails (perish the thought of using a dovetail jig).
Last year, as I approached the realization of completion, I started thinking of what would be my next mountain to climb. Enter Jack Guzman, a Windsor chair maker from Maine, with a post and pics of a Curtis Buchannon rocking Windsor chair and off to the races I went. My library now has a huge collection of Windsor chair books and lots of saved u-tube videos and a bunch of new tools. The "Chairmaker's Notebook" by Peter Gilbert is my guiding light into this new world.
I never thought of including chair building into my journey of woodworking - I considered chairmakers and the craft a cult. Well, welcome cult.
When you decide to build Windsor chairs, you better be pretty good at turning. I'd done some turning in the past needing to turn legs for a Shaker sewing desk but turning was not my thing. Now that has changed. I need to get good at it. So in addition to the Tormek, I just ordered a Rikon 1hp grinder with 2 CBN wheels from Ken.
A friend and novice turner, showed me some of his work only using carbide turning tools. Until 2 weeks ago I had no knowledge of the tools. But the little I've learned about the tools tells me it's like Earth and Mars.
So that's why I pose the question. Oh, by the way, I'm expecting the set of carbide turning tools today!