The Hunter Phoenix Tool

The Phoenix The Phoenix Tool has an interesting start.  It was designed and evaluated by myself (Mike Hunter) several years ago.  I did not care for it and placed it on the “wall of shame.”  A woodturning friend in Arkansas always likes to evaluate new tools and for some unknown reason this reject was sent to Dennis.  Dennis Steltz is an accomplished segmented turner.  He also likes to turn boxes, bowls, calabash forms and other larger diameter turnings.  He showed me how to use this tool and he also named the tool The Phoenix as it was revived from the ashes.  The Phoenix is a first choice tool for your light finish cuts.  The best use of the tools is as a scraper to clean up the sides, blending into the lower radius and removing the nubbins that are always difficult to turn.  The Phoenix uses the small # 1 Cutter which has proven to be a superb finishing cutter.  It is a forgiving tool.   All tools are shipped with the screw and cutter installed along with a T-9 Flag Style Torx wrenc