Good morning from Oregon, usa. Sorry about the spelling in my email last week. I didn't proofread, and I was a bit tired. It has a few pictures of a cherry bowl i turned after boiling a roughed out blank from wet wood. 1 hour per inch works like a dream to keep it from cracking. Also, if you have a drying box, it speeds the process up to about 2-3 weeks.

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Thanks so much for the review, just bought these and was very dubious but they seem great for the price

Amazing wood grain!

I really enjoy the video almost as much as I enjoy counting the dandruff

Beautiful

Awesome piece Shay!! Great job!

I saw the angel in the wood and turned it until I set it free. You are the Michelangelo of wood turning sir.

This was just the video I needed thank you! I have an old continental spindle gouge with an original flatter nose grind and kind of assumed that style needed to more or less keep that limitation. Needless to say I am glad to hear my temptation to give it some wings (maybe a fingernail grind) is somewhat justified :)

The sound works fine, but blow your nose please. It sounds like your going to have a heart attack.😮

absolutley gorgeous - the bowl obviously.

I'm glad you cored that blank. It would have been a real shame to turn that much of that beautiful Walnut into shavings. That is one nice -looking bowl. Well Done!!

You did a fantastic job there Shay. Beautiful, elegant, shape that shows the wood off really well. Nice one. Best Wishes, Brendan.

I was lucky enough to get a load of green walnut ive been rough turning and then sealing till its dried out. Very nice though. I have the one way coring system with the hunters korpro carbide cutter and it’s super easy to set the depth of cut.

Thanks for the review. What type of wood were you using, was it a hard wood or soft? How long have the carbide tips stayed sharp if you continued to use these turning tools? Thanks again.

Very nice, thanks

Stunning bowl

Hi Shay, That is well worth the wait mate. It is STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! William is a very generous person and has sent me so many pen blanks some of them I had never heard of. Excellent end result Shay. Take care mate. Cheers, Huw

Beautiful bowl. Great craft! What coring system do you use! Michael

Very beautiful. I love walnut.

How can I send you blanks? I have 5 black walnut bowl blanks under my lathe stand and I have persimmon, Bois d’arc and Bradford pear as well. Beautiful bowl by the way!

Walnut is king! I have several pieces Im debating on how to turn. Walnut is everywhere here. I am sorry about the plumbing issues, but in the bright side your lovely wife gets new floors.

Outstanding After waiting 30 years is that a keeper for yourself?

Wow shay that came out amazing super well done, and cored which is a Bonus, delighted to be able to give you your first piece of Irish Walnut, again the bowl looks great, Kind regards From will 👍 😊

Very sorry to hear of your plumbing problems Shay hope your sorted soon. A truly stunning bowl, a rare piece and you did it justice. I have the same lathe and coring system as you, I added a draw bar to the tail stock fitting I found that it reduced vibration for me.

Beautiful bowl Shay!

As usual another fantastic video! Sorry to hear about your flood! Hope is going well. Here are n the USA, I’m ashamed to admit we have places (Iowa) that has so much Black Walnut people split it for firewood! 🤬🤬🤬

Beautiful walnut bowl. I’m happy that you voted it too. Well done!

1st😂 will watch tomorrow

That's absolutely belting Shay. Fantastic job. So glad that the recipient was really pleased with it but then again I can't imagine anyone not being so if they were to receive it. With a bit of imagination, artistic flair & licence I'd imagine the clock kit you used could be put to use in many different situations. Keep well and stay safe buddy 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We use that mold kit. The molds are 5” long. You cut your blocks at 2-1/8” before you drill. The brass sleeves are exactly 2”. These are the kits we use all the time. I’m only 8 min in Shay, but we do the spin style and you can always just press the spin part in a little extra and not have any problems with length.

Still haven’t tried my temu kit, but the case is hanging on the wall with the rest of the chisels. We’ll make the 2 piece pen kits and mainly just use my 1” flat chisel for the whole thing. Cheers Shay

Thank you so very much for showing use your èvery step ýou do. I Learn a awful lot. I have buy some antlers I was not short how to go about how to go thank you so much. Nathan

I just bought one from Amazon and had to send it back because there was a dent in the bottom of the vacuum pot. The packaging wasn't damaged, so I can only assume they don't have any quality control, ship everything regardless of manufacturing damage at the factory, and just hope that the buyer accepts a damaged product. After reading a lot of reviews on these, I found a couple of other people who had the same problem. Anyway, I returned that one. The second one is on it's way. If it's damaged or anything is wrong with it in any way, I'll just send it back for a refund, and go with another manufacturer.

Check glenn and liza teagle wood turning, he uses and sells his own carbide tools

I only use carbides for my pens but I use the round head. Much easier.

About 2 years ago I succumbed to the hype and bought a few carbide tools from reputable sources. I can use the carbides, but it's just not as satisfying as traditional tool. That's MY take on it, at any rate.

You did a cracking job on that pen. Where did you buy or make the plastic assembly cones. I was thinking of buy a pen press but seeing you r video I would like to copy your method.

Thanks for the video. I’ve been watching a few videos by Glenn Teagle who recommends to not use carbides like a scraper. His technique is to roll the cutter over 45 degrees and to angle the handle back so that you use the small bevel on the cutter. This supposedly means the carbide cuts rather than scrapes and you don’t get the tear out issues. Not tried it myself as I don’t have carbides, but have been watching Glenn’s videos to see if they’re worth a try.

That was really nicely done Welcome to the dark side lol. I think it would have been a bit less bitey if you had used the round carbide a bit aswell thats a really nice looking pen kit too all in all for a carbide virgin WELL DONE

looks good to me dude

Hi most people think that carbide are scrapers wrong if you use the tools as y Traditional tools you will get a fantastic finnish without much sanding Ride the bevel not straight in

I'm not really a carbide guy, kind of like you I use them for certain things. But with pens I do like to make my final shape with a square carbide. I find that using the square Edge with a negative rake carbide will leave a easy to sand finish. And the slow cutting makes the final shaping easy. Great show thanks

Great pen and a great video. I’m with you on “traditional” tools, but have learned carbides as well. Nothing at all wrong with the way you turned this pen. The one thing you might have done differently, and it’s a relatively new idea with carbides, is to turn the cutter up on an angle, giving more of a skew presentation. Even presenting the cutter flat, you can slide along sideways cutting as you go. In other words, you don’t have to plow straight in all the time. With that one tool, I would suggest roughing it down nearly to size plowing straight in, and the finish with 2-3 passes sliding along sideways, either allowing the leading corner to lead the way or turning up the trailing side and presenting the skewed edge to the surface. Beautiful pen masterfully done.

Nice pen. Is that a sierra style kit? I learned to turn with carbide. I can't get a finish cut with carbide because most carbide tools, with the exception of Hunter tools, do not have a bevel to ride. They are simply a form of scrapers so I expect alot of sanding.

Thanks for falling on the grenade to spare the rest of us traditional tool guys. Very good job and a good sport too. Thanks

Ummm ya…….no. Lol

Brilliant, loved this one Shay. I only use a round negative rake carbide tip when turning pens with carbides. I did try the square tip to start with but had the same results in the "grabbing" I have to say that using the SRG and Skew does give me more pleasure with the end result but when I'm batching pens I find carbides quicker for me. Perhaps I should practice more with the traditional tools when making pens. Thanks so much for the shout out Shay, really appreciated. Take care mate. Cheers, Huw PS I would have said welcome to the dark side but for some reason I don't think this will become a common occurrence.

Old dogs CAN learn new tricks! I love carbide because you don’t have to spend time to sharpen. I always start with a small round bit and don’t use the square tip much. I wind up using negative rake to do most of the last bit of turning.

G'day mate.