I'm fairly new at turning and up to a few days ago never touched my skews. However, I've decided to start practicing with them to try and gain some proficiency. I've been practicing on 2" x 2" cherry spindle blanks.

For those of you that are already proficient with a skew I have a question involving the combined bevel angle. I have two 1" flat skews with one skew ground at a combined bevel angle of 25 degrees and one ground at a combined bevel angle of 45 degrees.

I'm finding it is much easier for me to control the skew with the combined bevel of 25 degrees than the one at 45 degrees.

Does this make sense? I'm asking because some things I've read suggest it should be the other way around.

I would appreciate your comments

Thank you