How To Sharpen A Roughing Gouge Without A Jig

I use a round fish hook sharpening diamond hone.

How to sharpen a roughing gouge without a jig. Practice keeping the angle fixed on the wheel quite a few times before you turn it on. The platform rest is great for scrapers spindle roughing out gouges or parting tools. He uses flat stones in this case diamond stones in coarse 250.

If the gouge profile is one you like then sharpen heel to nose following the bevel all the way aroudn the curve. Nick also demonstrates how to use the Tormek Marker Method when setting the angle and how to sharpen a custom skew shape on the side of Tormeks Diamond. It will go away on its own after the first few hundred revolutions of the wood against it.

1 Position the bowl gouge in the jig with the pointed leg of the jig facing backward and down. Woodturning artist Nick Agar shows how to sharpen a roughing gouge with the Tormek Wet Sharpening SystemIn this film Nick uses the following productsWoodt. Found the video with the roughing gouge.

Here are the bowl gouge sharpening techniques step-by-step. This video demonstrates how to sharpen a roughing gouge with a grinder wheel. I do remove them.

Take the gouge and place it on a coarse flat stone 250 grit at a 30-degree angle with the surface. You can always use a diamond or CBN card to sharpen and rely of the wheels when it is time to restore its shapeprofile. Paul shows how to sharpen a gouge using his standard method rocking the gouge side to side.

If you are extensively reshaping a gouge rough out the new grind on an angled platform before starting with the jig. For spindle gouges I go with the traditional fingernail grind. This weeks video shows how I sharpen mine.