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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Timing is everything – the latest issue of Woodworker’s Journal (June 2021) has an article on carbide-inserts. They mention turning copper (brass, plastic resin) works better with a negative rake. They use Easy Wood Tools as an example so I went to their web site and they do sell negative rake cutters. So I called EWT and spoke with a technician. He said I didn’t need the negative rake and the standard tips would work. I appreciate feedback like that because he could have very easily said I did and I would have bought the 3 tips at around $17/ea. He said my standard cutters would work fine. He even pointed me to a video that he just posted on the EWT Facebook page. A customer was turning a wedding ring for his son out of copper and deer antler. Anyway, it was good to watch because it showed me what to expect when I start to turn my second sphere. The first sphere is done thanks to this WW community but I am going to turn a second and probably a third.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> Thought I would pass this on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"'>Chuck<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>