Brian, I have watched what seems like hundreds of videos on turning, but as a new turner I can truthfully say that I have learned more from you than any single source. I really like your approach. I plan to watch all of them as soon as I can. Thanks,

I have been hobby turning for quite a while but I often like to refresh what I'm doing by watching videos like this one. This is top class information and advice.

Great vid! Wish I had seen this before I got started. As always, very clear, eloquent and informative.

Love your teaching style. Thanks for these videos

Thanks Brian! One of the most informative explanations of tools I have yet seen. And the 4-5 best tools to buy was a huge money saver!!! Regards, Charlie

Hey Brian, Wow!! Lot's of information for a beginner like me. I'll be watching this video several times I'm sure. Thank's for taking the time to teach us and help us get started on the road to turning.

You know how to make lessons easy enough for beginners like me to understand. Thank you.

Very skilled woodturner and great speaker. Thank you Brian for this very informative video.

This is a great video! I agree Brian does a good job getting good shots of his work. Thanks for the video!!!

Brian, you are an excellent instructor. Thank you from a true green horn.

Some great tips Brian, and a very informative video for beginners to ease their initial choice of "starter" tools. Wish this video was about when I started ;) Take care Mike

Thank you another excellent tutorial 👍👍

Thanks so much! A tutorial that’s actually informative! Great camera work, thorough, and practical.

I just bought a lathe and found this video. Thanks for the explanations and demonstrations on beginning chisels. The video was very helpful.

Thank you very much for sharing . I am you years ago and appreciate this info . You did a great job explaining and confirming other things I have been learning . Thank you sir

I’ve watched a lot of videos by a lot of turners, and you sir, seem to have the best mastery of the tools. Impressive.

Great video just started turning and was lucky enough to tap on your video. Thank you Joe

I am an old geezer who recently retired, and decided to add to my woodshop a lathe. I did some turning many years ago in high school but I’ve completely forgotten everything. I don’t mind spending money on turning tools & I will buy quality stuff but I also dont want to waste money on tools I might not use and could have spent elsewhere. I appreciate very much you taking the time to explain things. Man I wish there had been an Internet back then as well as part of my adulthood. Thanks again and take care.

Excellent demonstration, great explanation whilst continuously turning and holding the watchers interest

That was very entertaining and very informative. Thanks

This is a really good video. I'm amazed at all of the different ways you're using those gouges. Wish I would have watched it before I started ordering gouges.

I'm. glad you made this video and that i found it. I'm a begginer and truly i'v learned a lot from you mate. God bless you.

Brian, this is by far the best video I have watched on advice for beginners. Thank you so much.

Thank you for taking your time to help out struggling newcomers. There is no greater service than to teach someone and watch them progress to a point where even you admire their work. This and your end grain video have helped me know how to hollow out a pot I was working on. Keep up the good work and again many thanks. Oh and I just subscribed to your channel.

I came across-ed a good deal on a lathe and 18 different tools. Had no idea what they are or where to start with them. Thanks so much so far after 3 months. I now have a better understanding about the tools. This video is very straight forward and direct

MAN! Being new to this I can't thank you enough! Ben doing a # of things wrong, and a few right. I can't tell you how much this helped! THANK YOU! Already working my way though all your stuff!

Thanks mate, this video is well worth watching and it made me realize I have a lot to learn. It's blokes like you who really know how to instruct and advise as well as do great wood turning, who encourage us, newcomers, to keep at it.

Great advice. Thanks. Keep up the good work!

Great money and time saving tips. Thanks

Still a very helpful video for beginners! Thanks a lot!

I am glad I found your instruction. Thanks for the great tips.

Thanks Brian! I have been using carbides....as money dictated me going that route. I'm now hooked, and am starting to look at getting more traditional tools. I am finding that it's harder for me to do bowls with medium carbides. This gave me a good list to start with.

I saw this before buying a lathe, and I'm really glad I did. I am impressed by the number of people who wished they had seen it early on. Thanks so much!!

As a complete newbie, I had to watch a couple of times before I started to catch on, but eventually I did. You really explain your reasoning well,. Thanks a lot for making the video.

Very helpful, Brian. Just found your site. I like the way you address the pros/cons of tools. Was glad to see you include the skew. I've decided as a new turner to take up the challenge and learn to use it. I'm contemplating grinding a curvature to mine as I see a lot of people use it. Thanks again.

Just getting into turning and I really liked this video. A lot of good info for the neophyte.

Brian, thanx. I'm considering turning wood and resin gifts. I appreciate the way you come across. Not a tutorial, not a brand plug, not a showcase of your wares, and not bragging about your skills. Your confidence and straight-forward information is exactly what I needed. I will view your other vids.

I was recommended to watch your videos. Thank you for sharing

thanks for the simple explanations and demonstration. I want to try this but it appears overwhelming. good delivery for novice.

Very honest and interesting video, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

I wish I found you about 100 viewing hours ago! i have been turning for a few months and this is clearly the best source of information and instruction online! Thank you!

Thats real good news - saw this after I wrote my letter to Santa, but got them all on the list :) Excellent video, thanks.

Planning on starting turning, this was a big help. Thanks Brian, greetings from England!

Thanks so much for the video. I'm a beginner and have found your video much more informative than the many others I have watched. Best Wishes!

You´re right, sets often include tools you don´t use or a different size than you´d prefer but as a beginner you don´t know what you want, you don´t know what you need and you don´t even know your preferences. It´s ineviteble that you´re going to buy some tools you think would be useful but in the end they will just collect dust. For me, the roughing gouge would be the 4th tool after the spindle gouge, the parting tool and the skew. With my roughing gouge I can remove a lot of material without dulling the tools for the finer work. That way it saves me a lot of time and my other tools will last longer. Since I have a Neuhammer roughing gouge which isn´t as deep as the usual ones, it´s way more versitaile. It´s more or less just a giant spindle gouge. What tools you need always depends on what you want to make. I have made some bowls but I mainly turn parts for furniture and small boxes. Furniture parts were the reason why I bought a lathe in the first place and that´s about 90% of what I use the lathe for.

Thanks a lot for this video. I wish that I have seen this video before I bought my first tool set.

Thanks for the advice as I'm a beginner I'll need all the help I can get.

Excellent tutorial clear and concise.

Very informative for new wood turners like myself. Thanks

Thanks for the recommendations. Good info.

Thanks for the very useful recommendations. I found them to be very useful.

Thanks for the advice. I just bought my first lathe and having a hard time finding the right tool for a beginner. So again thanks.

AWESOME VIDEO! ! Just what I been looking for i learned alot just starting out got a mini and a nice set of Sorby tools from my brother. ....used some of them upside down lol! Great help thanks for sharing. .......John

I got given a lathe today, from a customers garage whilst fitting her new garage door. she was going to scrap it! now I'm here haha ive got a feeling this is going to be my new hobby!

Ha! So, where were you when I was starting out! Excellent advice ... I have passed a link to this video on to a friend who is just getting started.

Thank you Brian this was a very helpful video.

Thanks for the tool tips!

First KZread comment ever. Great educational video, I just got a used lathe thinking I'm going to expand my woodworking hobby. I'm overwhelmed by the choice of tools, this got me on a good starting track, thank you. Looking forward to watching more of your videos

Hi I'm just starting turning & have been looking for video's for help & advice was a good video to watch good advice thank you for making & sharing your work Regards Steve UK London

Hello Brian What a great Video, im coming back to Wood Turning after 34 years & need a little advice, this helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing ive subbed & liked. Cheers, Graham.

Solid information. Thanks. I'm looking to make handline fishing reels which seems would use a bowl gouge.

A very helpful video for me, thank you!

Great video, thanks for the tips!

Great tips Bran THANK YOU

thanks for share your experience i hve no lathe but youre my master:congratulations and blessing

Great video. I wish I'd seen it months ago. Coming up with similar impressions, but the hard way, unfortunately.

I luckily found a set with all of these tools for a great price and good quality for the price.

Thanks dude. Nice info for a starter.

Learned a good deal from this video. Wish I would have viewed it sooner.

well done,,,i do woodturning ....and i learned a few new tricks,,,,never to old to learn

Great camera work. Excellent recommendations for a new turner to favor quality over quantity and master the few tools before loading up.

@woodhog4154

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I too appreciated his choice of quality over quantity. As a person who has used many various tools in his career, I learned early that quality can never be beat. Now that I am into woodturning and woodworking, I am using the same advice. Means that I cannot get what I want right away but when I do get it I appreciate it more.

@jamesmoore3346

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Quality over quanity. I cant go the price of Sorby tools, find the Penn State Ind. Benjamins Best to be a really decent tool. Excellant advice

Thanks for your recommendations

FYI Regarding kits. Some college woodworking classes require students to supply their own tools. So beginners sometimes have no choice but to buy kits. Then the first couple weeks time is used in sharpening the new tools. Part of learning.

I just watched this again and can report that after buying an Alan Lacer skew, wide one, it roughs really well and almost eliminates the need for a spindle roughing gouge. Overall, I appreciate your advice. It's right on.

Thank you very much, this is really useful.

Awesome video! Loved your recommendations and demonstrations!

as a beginner i LOVE this (and a lot of your others) very informational video i realy wish i would have found em just a little bit earlier :-) anyway i realy learned a lot and will definately follow your advices. Thanks a lot ! havent seen better videos for woodturning yet.

Some people just KNOW how to make a video and some don't...period. This video is GREAT help to a beginner....WELL DONE and thanks. Could you give me a suggestion as to a couple of DECENT quality brand names for my first tools?

educational and entertaining, thanks!

Great video, very informative. Worth subscribing

thanks brian this video helped me alot,

A great help, thank you.

Very useful and interesting- thanks!

Awesome info!!!

great video brian,,,

Спасибо большое. Для меня была очень полезная информация. Вам удачи и успехов в этом увлекательном деле.

Thank you.

thank you very much very useful information!

Thank you super instruction.

Perfect video. Thank you.

Perfect good advice

Really good video. It is a great deal of help. Would like to know the speeds you do and the speeds for different types of wood and shapes.

Excellent video, loads of good advice, demonstrations short and to the point, but the sound really suffers in places. 8/10, would watch again.

outstanding. thank you.

Thanks! Great info! I subscribed!

Thanks Brian. Some terrific information here for us beginners. I agree with your logic about finding what you like to do before you go out and buying more tools. I actually bought a set when I bought my lathe, chuck and protective equipment etc. I'll certainly be subscribing to you. What about Tungsten Carbide tools; what do you advise about these? Allan

I highly recommend a chuck guard-my dad learned the hard way

I found very informative

These are great tips for people that actually know what you're talking about. I would love to get into woodturning, but to start with buying tools that I'd have to sharpen myself would pose a problem. Even if I DID have a grinder to do so, I'm not sure I'd trust myself to sharpen the tools with any accuracy at all. So having said that, what about carbide tools?

nice video. Would you mind showing how you grind your tools? Type of stone, water, hone, etc.?