Pretty much the best turning videos. Thank you 🙏

I was beginning to think that tear out and 80 grain sandpaper was a way of life. I think I will do better because of this instructive video. Keep up the good work.

I've always been a proponent of learning by failure. I believe that the best way to learn to do something the right way is to do it wrong first and observe what happens. You learn by your mistakes. You don't learn anything by doing correctly. I am loving this series of scientific type demos where you show up close what happens when you cut the wrong way and the right way. I struggle constantly with punky spalted wood, so I am very interested in these videos. At my job as an aircraft crash rescue firefighter, we have yearly training where they tell us to get on a hose and approach a fire and do it exactly this way. We learn absolutely nothing about how to fight the fire if it's not presented to us in a training scenario. So in real life, if we have a fire that is at all different than how we trained, we will be at a loss because we were never allowed to experiment with bad technique. Keep it up.

Very interesting! Txs for this crisp & clear explanation

Brian thanks for the great explanation of grain orientation , now when I'm confronted with end grain or the like this will come to mind ! Keeeep them coming ...Thank U Rj

Wow, great explanation with the straws as a visual!!

Thank you for a most helpful video. I often have trouble with tear out and coincidentally the last piece to cause me problems was mahogany. I usually resolve it with heavy sanding which is not at all satisfactory. I love the lightness of touch with your tools. I'm still using the overhand method by grasping the tool like a gorilla. Best wishes, Alan.

Thank you Brian. Marc

Thanks for this exceptionally good explanation. I would like to see a demonstration of your preferred method for cutting across end grain in the bottom of a cylindrical end grain box, where the inside bottom of the box is flat and perpendicular to the grain direction, as in hollowing a spindle. I have had no success hollowing air-dried (for 20 years) white birch. In this situation, it appears to me that the direction of travel of the cutting edge makes no difference, as you are still cutting 90 degrees to the direction of the grain. I've tried gouges at various grinds and cutting angles with much chattering and tearout. Best success for me was with a scraper, but again, this was not even close to a clean cut.

Well explained, thank you.

First of all thank you for this video. however , I would like to ask you -of course if you wish to- further explaing what is the difference between situation 10:21 and 10:40. Isn't it both endgrain? thanks again.

Brian, can you enable adding subtitles for this video as well?