Pulling cuts remove wood faster, but tear the blank more than push cuts which are slower, but finish better. Always?
"Scraping is a pulling cut with the wood doing the pulling". This proverb probably pulls my leg more than the wood.
"Impeccable poor taste can be the perfection of imperfection". Depends on the judge & jury.
"If you don't like a turning, look closer". Of course, you may like it even less.
"It looks wrong and it feels wrong, but it can be right". Delusions of adequacy?
"What is left off is as important as what is left on or put on". My shavings and chips don't seem all that important or my lacquer quite that unimportant.
"Tool marks indicate poor craftsmanship". Deliberate tool marks need not, but they could be markers that suggest it.
"You have to spoil a good turning a little bit in order to get it right". How spoiled?
"Good turners learn the rules, good artists forget them". There may not be any rules. "The more perfect the technique, the less it is noticed". Maybe true for laymen, but not for turners.
"When grinding gouges swing the wings, twist the flute". Makes sense to me. So does lag the scraper, lead the flute.
"A secondary bevel is not a bevel, it's a relief angle". I agree. No matter how short, the angle leading to the edge is the bevel.
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