Joshua Dinerstein
09-15-2010, 1:05 AM
I decided not to wait for the replacement wheel from Hartville and so I mounted things with an older wheel on one side and one of the new 60 grit wheels on the other. I can't believe how smooth the bevel on the tools are now. It ground things vastly superior to what I was getting before. So I went back thru all of my tools and re-sharpened them just to see how good I could do. I wish I could successfully got good photos of the bevel I was able to put on my tools. The standard grind bowl gouge is just amazing. Wow.
I would hands down recommend these to anyone.
I still want to get a better dresser for the wheels as I think it would still help. So a Geiger dresser is coming in my near future. But I just can't believe how big an improvement it is even as it is.
I still managed to butcher my long-grind bowl gouge. I found that the flute is not ground even in my older gouge. So the top press point on the varigrind is still not pressing even. I think that it is just time to regrind it into a standard grind. Because that will work flat on the platform. Then I can take one of the others and regrind it to replace it lock stock and barrel.
Anyway, other than this one last issue sharpening has become a real pleasure. The Darlow jigs from his sharpening video, a balancer and some new wheels and I pretty darn happy with what is going on.
Joshua
I would hands down recommend these to anyone.
I still want to get a better dresser for the wheels as I think it would still help. So a Geiger dresser is coming in my near future. But I just can't believe how big an improvement it is even as it is.
I still managed to butcher my long-grind bowl gouge. I found that the flute is not ground even in my older gouge. So the top press point on the varigrind is still not pressing even. I think that it is just time to regrind it into a standard grind. Because that will work flat on the platform. Then I can take one of the others and regrind it to replace it lock stock and barrel.
Anyway, other than this one last issue sharpening has become a real pleasure. The Darlow jigs from his sharpening video, a balancer and some new wheels and I pretty darn happy with what is going on.
Joshua