Spindlemaster

Yes, I do. It is very limited I think -- learn to turn beads with a 3/8 beading and parting tool, coves with a spindle gouge and you will be a much happier turner. This is a gimmick tool and totally unnecessary. If you need a gimmick tool, make yourself a three point tool from a 3/8 drill blank. It will turn beads and you won't have any real money invested in it.

Bill

It's a short-radius skew. I took my old round - nose scraper from the original Rockwell set and ground it back to look like one, and it works well for outside work, as does a beading tool and skew. Not so well as an inside tool, because it lacks secondary clearance from turned up edges, so sometimes scores a cove, even when it's fairly broad.

It's a step above the one-trick ponies we all buy. I guess I'd put it on the same level as any of the other "cult" tools or grinds - great if you own it, gimmick if you don't.

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I have a 3 point tool from both 3/8" and 1/2" M4 steel. I like and use the

1/2" much more than the 3/8"

Ken Moon Webberville, TX

============================= I don't have a tool ground exactly llike the Spindlemaster, but I have 2 (3/8 and 1/2") that are similar in function. The drill rod is cut at about a

30 degree angle and groound to a working edge at this angle. __________ / /___________ (Make the angle much more than the ASCII graphic) Works well for outside work, coves, some inside work, and , if my 3 point is notn in reach, I can use it to do beads.

Ken Moon Webberville, TX