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I would like to thank all the people who gave me some good advice and tips regarding obtaining free wood for turning. Have also identified what I was doing wrong in my technique. Gouge errors🙄 Obtained free Wood from a local supplier, some dry some needs drying. All in all, good result👍👍🇬🇧...

I did the 5 day wood turning course at Axminster too...brilliant course

Thank you Thank you. Have acquired some wood with more on the way 👍👍

Have found that if I need any wood then it has to be bought. I live in Devon so plenty of wood around but you need £ to buy. Can pick up bits of of wood that’s fallen of trees when out walking. But can’t walk far nowadays anyway🙁 I have only ever had off cuts of oak or sepliea given. To tough...

Thank you, most helpful. Near the end of my tether as I have been trying to turn wood for a few years now. But had some good advice on here..so will keep going. Wife’s been waiting for over 5 years now for 4 wood egg cups!

I did that a few years ago. A five day course! But not had much luck since then. Will keep practising...had lots of tips and good advice on here. Thanks 👍 Scraping....do you mean with carbide tips?

I don’t use oak anymore.

Beginning to think it’s technique or me

Yes, riding the bevel. I get more dusty clippings of the wood then shavings? So thought maybe chisels are not sharp. But can’t get them any sharper.??

Yes. Very sharp and honed to the correct angle.

Decent lathe and basic wood turning chisels. All I seem to get is tears in all wood. Oak being the worse. Ash has been easy to work with in the past but ash is now to expensive for me. What am I doing wrong?