I've watched videos on the skew and figured it would be easy. I tried a few cuts, but as I said, I gave up. For now anyway.
a trick I learned.. from a beginner (First time I ever held a skew in my hands was less than 6 months ago) that they don't seem to get across on videos and instruction articles.. (or they do, but not in a way unfamiliar beginners really "get") get a blank round and then just practice laying the bevel *softly* on the wood - very slowly lay your skew flat on the TOOL REST, with the toe (point) pointing in the direction you are angling it (I'm right handed, most comfortable pointing it to my left) and THEN lay the flat body of the skew on the wood (edge and bevel well above) at this point, your handle is way down (long tool, your hand may almost be in your pocket) and the tool is touching tool rest (first, always) and the wood.. Then slowly draw it back (using the hand holding handle, use other hand to ONLY maintain tool flat on tool rest in one spot.. just hold things like you'd hold an egg.. no death grip, but firmly enough that it won't go flying if you pretend to throw a baseball with it) just a bit at a time.. you'll get a feel for it, and as the bevel comes down to touch the wood, you'll also FEEL the difference (and probably hear it but I can't vouch for that) as the tool comes off the flat and bevel starts rubbing on the wood (which is the point where most of the "ABC" folks are talking about when they say "bevel" ) should be able to easily feel that.. from there- slow down DRASTICALLY - it takes very tiny movement at all to get to the cut point - but continue on gently and watch/listen/feel as the cutting edge just barely begins to take a tiny wisp of shaving (assuming your skew is indeed razor sharp, literally sharp enough to shave with) and that is the exact point where you wanna begin practice - very very light cuts... I practiced that, and only that, process (bring it down to the point of cutting) many times until I could almost automatically grab the skew and soon as I laid it down, I was within a few thousandths of an inch of the cut point when I had tool on tool rest and bevel skimming wood .. lot of videos on different tools talk about riding the bevel or rubbing the bevel .. you might prefer to think of it as just skimming along (exactly as lightly as you might run your finger along a razor's edge to test sharpness) ... From there it was a matter of practicing NOT moving arms or hands and just sway back and forth (without wobbling in and out, changing cutting angle) letting the tool be guided by the tool rest , let the edge cut at its own pace (when you hit it "JUST RIGHT" you'll KNOW, since it almost feels like the cut is PULLING you along, instead of you pushing the tool into the cut)
I'm still far from mastering the skew (and most other tools in fact) but seems the more I practice, the better I get, *ONCE I GOT THE ABOVE THROUGH MY HEAD* Lot of instructors seem to talk about turning but as they have long ago just about forgotten (I suspect) what it felt like to them the very first time they ever picked up a lathe tool, it gets hard to describe how it feels to a rank beginner... But the practice of touching tool to rest , then to the wood (edge well above) and slowly draw down til you feel bevel rub , WITHOUT cutting, and WITHOUT the bevel leaving any tracks in the wood (burnishing) - myself I'd recommend scrap pieces of 2x4 cut in half (1 1/2" x 1 1/2" blanks, however long.. 12 inch seems to work fine) rounded best you can with a Roughing Gouge... since the wood is easily compressed, it'll typically leave more obvious tracks from burnishing (which your goal is to avoid) but once you get used to where the bevel is (and it will change for each and every tool) and the feel of it, you'll be much closer to getting controllable cuts which you can then practice with (as in the videos, etc)
Maybe that can help... But bear in mind - there's at least one video on the skew where what the guy said sticks with me - You can be using the skew daily for 30 years, but no matter how good you get with it, you're STILL always practicing.. the best ones will typically spend the first few minutes on waste edges of their project re-practicing (muscle memory thing) different cuts before starting in on their actual project..
I have also noticed quite a few videos where the person seemingly makes it all effortless, but careful watching of little details (In the movie industry they call it continuity) you realize they often edit out any and all catches or undesirable stuff they don't wanna admit they "screwed up" .. so... unless the video is uncut live stream, I learned to also take some of those videos with a grain of salt.. they may not always be as perfect and effortless as they seem (in fact I recall one bowl maker video I watched where the shape , and grain of the wood, suddenly changed slightly mid-video.. it wasn't the same piece of wood as they started with!.. almost as if they got a nasty catch and couldn't salvage it)