Reed, your highly skilled work with a scraper is one of the reasons I went to roughing a bowl with the tools I do. At this point I am wondering what adjustments I would make--I know the basics at least, and using the round carbide I like is due to the shapes and curves I like in a bowl--I had never had this issue of stalling a lathe or anything even near it IMO, and I just find it to much of a coincidence that it only started happening to me when I changed lathes. As I've mentioned I turned many bowls on a Powermatic 3520 B, and my own NOVA, and never stalled either of those lathes--and I haven't changed my approach just the lathe I am working on--I think the Laguna 24-36 had electrical issues--confirmed by the fella that purchased it. This Vicmarc--I don't know what the hell--my contact at Woodworkers Emporium says that they have had customers that have had electrical issues very infrequently in the past--so he is checking in to what I should look at re: my lathe.
Unfortunately Vicmarc doesn't have an 800 number and the 15 min or so conversation I had with Marco there, cost me $108---rude! So I am waiting to hear information through Woodworkers Emporium....
I go back to my technique not changing, only the lathe, and as a wise former boss I had said--if you change one thing and get different/unacceptable results, then logically the thing you changed is the culprit. So I am going to have a few people I value the opinion of look at my technique, and turn on this lathe themself, to see what they come up with, I've got a couple of large blanks I've been holding off of working on, and I most definitely want to core them--so that's the next high torque/power requiring operation I've planned, so it will be very interesting to see what issues develop when trying this...
Thanks for all the input folks--I genuinely appreciate it.--Don