Turned items are not looking good …

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19 August 2012 at 22:07 #96714
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I'm pretty new to this engineering business too and I had exactly the same problem when I started out, less than 2 years since.

In my case it was the cutting tools. You need to grind a tiny flat on the nose of the tool. Google lathe tools for directions on how they should look.
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