Spindle Woodturning with a Skew
It must have been at least couple of months since I wrote in my blog. The reason for not being active was mainly being lazy and very unproductive in blogging — spending much time in social networks can really make a difference in your life.
Anyhow, I have managed to make some videos lately, where I’m using a skew chisel that looks very much like Alan Lacer’s famous skew chisel.
Basically, I’ve taken my old Delta skew, which was angled at the usual, normal skew, and I’ve made a slight curve to it. By the way, for this task, I’ve used a sandpaper belt, that is attached to the bench grinder that I have. The only downside of my chisel is—it’s not a good grade woodturning metal, like Hight Speed Steel or similar.
At each pass, I had to put the entire heated up piece in a cool water which would prevent overheating of the metal–Overheating causes metal molecules to restructure, which weakens, or does something horribly wrong (degenerates, mutates.)
After this, I took a 220 sandpaper, and manually, closely, easily sharpened the edges. After that, I just polished with the Tormek honing wheel. The finish looks like mirror and it is very sharp.
The next downside of it is—at the high friction the metal tends to heat up and pretty much burn your hand. But, of course, that can’t stop me doing what I want to do. So I had a nice bucket of cold water next to me. And when each time I felt the tool is heating up, I just placed the entire chisel in the water — what a good feeling, very relaxing 
Anyhow, I think it’s worthy to watch the video. See, how can patient people create things. And with this said, I’d like to ensure the world, that this world will never end, because nothing is yet complete — everything changes, new replacements need to be made, new ideas have to become reality and all this with patience.
