GaryG in MD
These things make me so appreciative of people like John Lucas!

I get an "Alert" from Google when new "woodturning" things appear.
Got this one today.

The video begins with promise. It has good audio and a two-camera video system. Very professional! The guy starts with a small, roughly-chainsawed, side-grain "bowl" blank. He puts it on the lathe with a screw chuck. So far, so good.

Then he puts the tool rest along the side of it, parallel with the ways, and attacks those square edges side-on with a spindle roughing gouge. I was in shock. They've tried to change the name of that tool away from "roughing gouge", but people still just don't get it.

He put it in a chuck without turning the bottom first, so he had to turn the bottom right up against the chuck jaws, necessarily leaving a lot of material there.

Then he sanded the inside, and what he could of the outside, with a cheap, thin, plastic glove on his hand. An accident looking for a place to happen. I was holding my breath, but I should have saved that for the last step.

He ended the video by reversing it and ripping it out of the chuck two or three times on a simple, "gentle" finishing cut meant to clean up the foot area. It seems to me that we live in a world of cause and effect -- if you do it once, stop and figure out what happened and don't repeat it! Not so here... again and again... same tool, same angle, same result. Surprise!

I have only one question. "WHY?" ...Gary