Tim, I concur your solution, you may remember that I said you might be "pressing too hard" in the shaver. The "too much wood" is the correlary of the pressing too hard. Come to think of it, I've had the same problem with an electric pencil sharpener - do it too fast and the pencil comes out uneven.
I know the Vega duplicator, and was thinking of getting one. But I blew my budget on the Luthier's Friend and the commercial bending iron (and I mentioned that I bought the latter in self defense as I didn't want to use a home made bending iron, involving fire or electricity, in a condo apartment where I would be sued should anything happen and I were using an "unapproved" device). So I'm stuck with the hand turning, and I must admit I quite enjoy it (except I had to buy a bottle of eyewash as I'm using cocobolo and the dust is a bit annoying to the eyes). I am unable to resist this, even though I'm a Republican. > And thank God (and Chad) Was this a quote from GWB in 2000? Best, Jon To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
