Hi all,I picked up a lot of honey locust from my local arborist the other day, and today I started working on a piece. I cut out a roughly 10" by 5" bowl blank on the bandsaw, then mounted it on the lathe. It's heavy! Probably the heaviest wood I've tried to turn so far...But, I ran into a problem. Actually, several - honey locust seems also to be the hardest wood I've turned. So much so, that I managed to break 3 of my tools trying to turn it. Check out the pictures below:1. My Square carbide cutter cracked/splintered right down the middle2. The 3/8" round bar holding my circular carbide cutter bent on a catch (not pictured)3. My 1/2" bowl gouge wings got bent out of shape... Now granted, at least part of this is technique - the blank is pretty out-of-round & unbalanced. I was getting some pretty good catches which led to these problems. But that being said, I never had this kind of problem with walnut or even maple! Lee
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