Thread: A smile and maybe true?

Nice story. I know exactly the person I will show it to. He has spent the last 30 years mastering the skew. He is the undisputed local guru of the art. One of his party tricks is to put a 1 1/2" square blank in the chuck and procede to whittle it down to a 60mm long 1 mm thick toothpick. He turns elaborated bobbins by the truckload.

So I challenged him: that I could do with my three sided bedan everything he could do with the skew, but he could not do everything with his skew that I could do with my tool (assuming sufficient access, of course). He cunnily mounted a piece of the softest pine and promptly demonstrated how much better the skew finished. But then mounted a piece of cherry and I promptly demonstrated that with any wood worth turning my tool produced as good a finish, and on the inside of a small bowl, as hard as he tried to pull miracles out of the skew, he could not produce as clean a curve as I did.

29.5 years wasted. Life is too short to waste it in this way.

Originally Posted by issatree

Hi All,

Yes, otherwise I would have a go, and show you my Skews.
Regards,
issatree.
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Pity about that, for at your last demo I learned a lot from you and picked up a few tips that I already have started using.

Another demo would be great.

Peter.