I recently inherited my grandfather's lathe. I really didn't know much about turning,and still don't! But I decided that experience would be the best way to learn. (As with most things.) After I got this "new"toy set up,I thought "Lets try it !" So I installed a one and one half inch square piece of wood and proceeded to test what I could remember from high school(30 +years ago.) It didn't take long to figure out the tools were dull. I asked for help on this site and got what I needed on sharpning these tools. Thanks for the input, guys!!! I tried a few more turning projects, and if I can get the pics to come up ,I'll show the results!! Regards,BB