Thread: Personal Turning Safety Kit

Yours or Neils?

Thanks for the observations and the judgements re sharpness which follow from seeing the shavings coming off the project.

I have a nice little tool originally used to measure the tip/bevel angles on drill bits. Works equally well for carving and lathe tools. From multiple measurements, I'd regrind the bevels such that most of gross scratch marks were gone, matte finish or better. Did the entire lot by hand.

I have been carving western red cedar, almost exclusively, for years. I'd poke a slab of that with the lathe tool and compare with what I know of carving tool performance. I think that the lathe tools are good to go.

However, I think that I'll start with wood a bit harder than my WRC. Birch (Betula) is in good supply.