Had a chance to play with the Mini Easy Finisher from Easy Wood Tools and I AM IMPRESSED!!! 

I was given a nice piece of Spalted Maple and decided to turn a platter. If you've ever worked with this type of wood you know it can have punky, soft spots. Even freshly sharpened tools can give less than desirable results. Realizing the Mini Finisher was not deigned to turn this type of work, made the results all the more astonishing. These photos show the platter (shallow dish) with NO sanding. I used a regular bowl gouge and scraper to round and flatten the blank. The only tool used to shape/cut the blank was the  Mini Easy Finisher.

I am definitely looking forward to trying out the other three tools from Easy Wood Tools!!

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Actually the mini easy finisher and rougher are made for this and other small, not over 2 inch or so deep projects. It also turns pens like no other tool I have used other than the next size up which is what I have.

Great looking platter there too

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Charles Nicholls
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Lew - a great advertisement for one of our sponsors.  Thank you, sir.

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Fred
aka Pop's Shop
www.pops-shop.com
'Soooooo many patterns - sooooo little time'
Scroll Saw Forum Host

Great looking platter Lewis!

I'll be sending you the EWT loaner tools today. I now you'll give them a good shake down and review.

For me the cutters are on the small side and in my view they are great for small spindles but not my cup of tea for pen turning. I prefer the larger sized carbide inserts that I have on my Wood Pen Pro. On deer antler and acrylic the EWT left ridges & chip out and it took a lot of time to smooth out. Whereas the WPP has a wider cutter and produced a better finish. Either way carbide is the way to go. No sharpening and the edge doesn't dull as quickly and they produce a clean cut.

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Wow that gorgeous! Is that a Delta midi lathe?

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Joel Green Studios Inc.
joelgreenstudios.com

Joel,

The lathe is an older Delta Iron Bed 1440. Works great but kind of noisy.

Joel Green said:

Wow that gorgeous! Is that a Delta midi lathe?

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Joel Green Studios Inc.
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