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I got a chance last night to try out my new (to me) Tormek grinder on a few Thompson gouges. I didn't make any changes to the profiles, so it only took a few minutes per gouge to get the initial grind on them, and dressing them up in the future will be at least as quick as using the Wolverine-style sharpening setup. And the edge seems to hold up well. Although I could no longer shave the hair on my arm with the bowl gouge after turning a large bowl, after about 15 seconds on the leather honing wheel it shaves again.
Looks to me like it's gonna work just fine. I was taking intentionally heavy cuts on wet sycamore, and it was spewing curlies like crazy, but leaving a very clean cut. Here are a few pics showing the evidence. I was impressed that I was able to shoot thick curlies over my shoulder and out the hole in the window. The shower curtain over the grinder was buried in curlies, but I cleared it off a few time in the process to get things out of the drawers below. (I used the shower curtain to keep the grinder dry. This wood was spraying water.)
Looks to me like it's gonna work just fine. I was taking intentionally heavy cuts on wet sycamore, and it was spewing curlies like crazy, but leaving a very clean cut. Here are a few pics showing the evidence. I was impressed that I was able to shoot thick curlies over my shoulder and out the hole in the window. The shower curtain over the grinder was buried in curlies, but I cleared it off a few time in the process to get things out of the drawers below. (I used the shower curtain to keep the grinder dry. This wood was spraying water.)