Roger Tulk
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I have sharpened my roughing gouge myself, and also my HF spindle gouges and skew, as well as myscrapers, and they seem to work OK, and I would say the skew works very well, taking very thin shavings and leaving a smooth surface behind.
I sharpened the spindle gouges using a motion similar to that achieved by some of the jigs I have seen (freehand) and achieved a cutting end more like a man's fingernail than a lady's, but it cuts pretty well.
I am a little intimidated by the bowl gouge. It seems to me that I can sharpen my spindle gouges simply by the same method as the roughing gouge, that is, put the tool against the stone at the correct angle, and rotate the tool along its length. The bowl gouge however, would seem to benefit more from a jig like the Wolverine, or the one Captain Eddie shows in his video, which is specifically about the Ellsworth gouge. I saw a video the man said he likes to put an Ellsworth type grind on his bowl gouges. Now, the bowl gouge I got from LV looks more like an Ellsworth than any of the other bowl gouges in the catalogue.
So, obviously I have some confusion running around in my head. What is the difference between an Ellsworth and a bowl gouge with deep wings? What is the normal pattern for a bowl gouge, and what settings would you use on a Wolverine type jig? Stuart's video shows him putting a similar end on a bowl gouge as the one I bought from LV's economy set. So, would you recommend grinding a bowl gouge with a lesser grind to one similar to an Ellsworth, or just copy the grind on any bowl gouge you buy? And if you can put an Ellsworth type grind on a bowl gouge, why buy an Ellsworth?
Please clarify my muddification.
I sharpened the spindle gouges using a motion similar to that achieved by some of the jigs I have seen (freehand) and achieved a cutting end more like a man's fingernail than a lady's, but it cuts pretty well.
I am a little intimidated by the bowl gouge. It seems to me that I can sharpen my spindle gouges simply by the same method as the roughing gouge, that is, put the tool against the stone at the correct angle, and rotate the tool along its length. The bowl gouge however, would seem to benefit more from a jig like the Wolverine, or the one Captain Eddie shows in his video, which is specifically about the Ellsworth gouge. I saw a video the man said he likes to put an Ellsworth type grind on his bowl gouges. Now, the bowl gouge I got from LV looks more like an Ellsworth than any of the other bowl gouges in the catalogue.
So, obviously I have some confusion running around in my head. What is the difference between an Ellsworth and a bowl gouge with deep wings? What is the normal pattern for a bowl gouge, and what settings would you use on a Wolverine type jig? Stuart's video shows him putting a similar end on a bowl gouge as the one I bought from LV's economy set. So, would you recommend grinding a bowl gouge with a lesser grind to one similar to an Ellsworth, or just copy the grind on any bowl gouge you buy? And if you can put an Ellsworth type grind on a bowl gouge, why buy an Ellsworth?
Please clarify my muddification.