Really focusing in on riding the bevel and then starting the cut with a sideways adjustment rather than deepening the tip, and I almost immediately see the payoff. Long shavings start spinning off the tool, curling strands rather than chips, dust or even flakes. I can simply feel the better mechanics of the cut, which is really isolating the difference for the later, higher angle cuts. I go from gliding to forcing....
and it isn't pretty. Most of 19 felt really smooth, but I managed to get spiral catches on both sides from the higher angle cuts near the end, so what was looking like a 'best yet' went sideways badly.
The original billet was one of the cleanest yet, one of the later ones from skew practice. On the bright side, 20 and 21 are at least smooth, although the right side of both is more like a lazy V-cut than a real cove. I really need to isolate what I am doing wrong as the angle increases.
AARGH!
I was trying to work on the 'coviness' of the shape when I got 22 - the biggest ugliest spiral catch, gouge sliding out of the shoulder and all the wap up the bead next to it. This is just maddening, the front end has become really straightforward and satisfying, and then I keep ruining it late. Cove 23 is better, cove 24 is a little off-center and the right shoulder has the V-cut tendency on the right.
Cove 25 is yet another really good start, it was in fact the very last cut on the right that produced yet another horrible spiral catch. Better swoop to the cut right up until then. Cove 26 is also better, but marred by a much smaller catch on the predictable right shoulder. Brick wall. Decent end to the session, 27 is about as good as I can do at this point, surface and symmetry are both OK. I must have struggled with the right side yet again, because the slope not continuous, but at least the bead next to it survived intact.
From here, I am going to shift gears again, just do quick sessions of 3 coves every evening, and move on to some projects, turning or otherwise. I feel like I have made enough progress to just try to use the skill in order to improve it more quickly.
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