Just got a bonus at work. Not enough to make up for everything I did, but still a nice surprise! I've decided I'm going to purchase a couple of quality turning tools with part of it.

The 'nice' tools I've got include a mega-flute bowl gouge that I really like, a good roughing gouge, a Sorby hollowing tool and a Sorby multi-tip scraper. Everything else is from a couple of mini/midi sets.

I've turned everything from pens and chain pulls to bowls and hollow forms with these. I've started using the small skews a lot, so I figure I'm going with a good size skew and a quality spindle gouge. I'm still on a mini-lathe and I'm not ready for a big boy yet, so a single bowl gouge is enough. Not really interested in a hollowing system since I don't turn HF often and I'm not commercial, so I'll continue to do these the old fashioned way.

Now that I've rambled enough to put everyone to sleep...

All of this got me to wondering; what is everyone's single, number one favorite, can't live without it, turning tool?