Calling Clay Foster
Don Tewell
Clay, at the demo in Bloomington, IL you showed how to use your beading tool. I made one, still have to fine tune it, but I can't remember if you use it as a scraper or try rubbing the bevel. Help!
Calling Clay Foster
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David Walser
Why ask Clay when many of us, unburdened by facts or personal experience, would be more than willing to tell you exactly how the tool should be — nay, must be — used?
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bill tucker
Rough humor for an old man early in the morning 
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clayfoster
It's a scraper, to be used at an angle less than 90 degrees to the wood. If it gets pointed up. it will rip the tops off of the beads.
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Don Tewell
That was my thinking just wanted to make sure. My memory isn’t what it used to be.
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Don Tewell
No disrespect to you or anyone else, it’s just that he showed me and I figured he is the one I should ask.
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David Walser
Don -- In case you couldn't tell, I was joking. You did right to ask for Clay's input. I was poking fun at our collective tendency to offer our unqualified opinions on matters on which we're not qualified to opine.
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john lucas
Don Here is my video on turning beads. I think it covers the way Clay does it. The new Dway bead cutting tools do work with a bevel rubbing. The secret to using those is to rock the tool gently back and forth and stop just as it reaches the top of the bead. If you go any further the top of the bead won't be as clean. Harvey Meyer does his basket weave bowls with that tools and never has to sand any of the beads. I don't have one yet but I'm saving my money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYehUsMdB4&t=700s
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Ralph Lindberg
I tend to agree with John
I've tried Clay's and honestly prefer the bevel-rub/peeling cut you can get with a D-Way beading tool.
That being said, I have hit times when I had an unacceptable amount of tear-out even with D-Way, so I raised the handle and went to a negative rake scrap to finish the bead.