Hi Alan, and likewise Welcome, not only to the Forum, but the wonders ... you've yet to find of the woodturning world, it can be said it's an 'up hill' task ... then equally the same, it can look 'down hill' as the more you spend.
You've got sound advice so far and don't fear in asking future questions, can save on running into problems, getting out of the same, wasting time and incurring unneeded expense, especially when it comes to tools, at best it's to concentrate as you are on the spindle turning and the tops, you'll get the basics for all other forms of turning.
Pine is very ideal for practicing on and given you've sharp tools .. will cut, take fine detail and finish well off the tool as a result, but above all it's time and practice which counts.
It has always been considered as a Forum, we should list a location for ourselves, we needed not be isolated, who knows who might just be next door ... so too speak, closer than a Club no doubt could be, yet a Club, as said has it's benefits all round, not just in what you can learn.
Good to read the part is ordered, soon back making shavings. Cheers David
