Carbide Lathe Tool Set, 20 inch Full Size Woodturning Tools

First off, I spent time on Facebook looking for input from turners more experienced than I.responses were varied with EZ wood tools standing out as a popular choice. However, the EZ wood tools are nearly $400 for a set of three chisels and beyond my budget. the Tenfer package seemed a good value and with the return option if necessary I placed my order.After having a couple hours experience with the Tenfer tools I’m finding them more than adequate and much simpler to navigate than traditional bowl gouge's. As a novice turner I’m happy with my buying choice.

Works great. Very economical.

Very easy to get used to these tools as a new turner. The quality is solid as well it seems. I've turned about 20 things with them and haven't changed the bits yet, which are cheap to get replacements and quick to change also. I've switched primarily to carbide tools now because of this.

I like the ease of wood removal and the square shanks. It makes it easier to control on the tool rest. Finish is a little rough compared to my regular chisels, but hey, don't need to sharpen these!

Very good value for me. First use of carbides and very happy with purchase.

there were no directions for the cutters.

I turned several rolling pins for a show and this saved me around 20 percent of turning time for each pin.

Handle arbor is advertised as SS, but I received an aluminum arbor witch is too soft for this application. The broached square hole for mounting the chisel in the handle is about .020 to big, allowing for side to side movement. This hole should be a high tolerance +_ .002, as supplied I received a .020 over size hole. This would allow a side to side movement of about 1/8 inch. Chisel steel is poorly finished looks like they sanded it with 80 grit sanding belt, carbide is very sharp, handle aside from the arbor is nicely made but to short.