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Woodturning suppliers sensibly aim to keep selling to us, and in increasingly-greater volumes. One proven way is to promote new equipment which makes turning easier, an objective which I fully support.

A recent example of such new equipment is the sets of carbide-tipped scrapers introduced in about 2015. These tools do allow you to turn without having to suffer “the drudgery of sharpening” or having to spend a few tens of hours to achieve competence in the conventional techniques. What the advertising for these tools omits is that their use restricts a turner’s vocabulary of forms, lengthens the time to turn a design, and also requires more sanding. These disadvantages are however less significant to bowl and vessel turners than turners of useful items which are often spindles or incorporate them. Therefore promoting these tools must have favored a relative expansion in non-useful turning.

Figure 1.6 A 2020 version of a colonial cottage without any delightful detailing. The veranda posts are left-square, there aren’t any pilarettes, the barge boards are narrow, and there isn’t a finial on the gable end where the barge boards meet.