With that in mind, I am shifting gears. I think I have a clear sense now of what I am supposed to do, it is more a matter of making it happen at the end of the tool. I will still have a couple of long sessions to work on this skill, but I am going to throw at least one spindle on the lathe every evening and just do a set of coves.
Not bad. You can see some choppiness on the late cuts initiating on the right of both 16 and 18, but they are not full spiral catches. I might be fighting the tool more than I should though, holding it in the cut with something of a learner's deathgrip at times.
Cove 17 is sort of interesting, because it is one of the better ones I have done, despite not getting that little ridge cleaned up. But at the same time, the left has a tighter curve than the right, and the uneven entry of the late high angle cuts is there, just smoother than with either 16 or 18. They are all sort of scotias though.
The minor realization from this little session is that starting the cut on the right is not a problem now until the later higher angle cuts. I will have to focus on how abrupt that transition is in my hands, I might suddenly be angling the gouge quite a bit more. I am also going to sharpen before the next set, another skill I don't have much confidence in but need to work through repetitions on.
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