Woah! It feels like deja vu. I spent the past day and a half practicing with my skew chisel on turning stock that I cut from old construction lumber.
I can make that skew dance, sing, slice, dice, and do everything but turn beads reliably. Turning beads gave me a lot of spiral catches. A lot. I am patient and stubborn and kept working on it. I would have a bunch of catches, then go back inside to look at my books, online videos, anything. I walk out, sure I've got it figured out, and BAM! again.
I can turn beads with my eyes closed with a spindle gouge, but I want to learn to make them reliably with the skew chisel.
I am using those Rockler tool rests with the hard steel rod across the top. Despite that, I created a couple dings across the top. A light filing, a gray ScotchBrite pad, and Renaissance Wax cleaned it up.
That final catch bit the very tip off the toe of the skew chisel, so I have some resharpening to do on top of everything else. Dang!