Joshua Dinerstein
05-22-2008, 3:36 PM
Hey Peoples,
I haven't posted in a while though I have been quite busy. Both turning and getting married. Amazing how the one cuts into the time of the other. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which one cuts into the time of the other... :)
I have made a few really nice bowls, read lots and lots of bowls and a few that I really think were great!, and had a lot of fun in the last year. But recently I started looking for more ideas of things to made and found a few shows with Dave Hout as the expert on the DIY TV network. This show fit the bill as it had some interesting ideas for things to turn and techniques to use. So I wanted to play!
But he uses a spindle gouge with a fingernail grind on it. This caught my attention as it looks very different than the ones that I have. Mine are what I believe to be the traditional spindle grind. I.e. when viewed from the top it looks flat and squared off but when viewed from the side the proper bevel is present. When I sharpen it I place it in the jig and rotate the tool around the center of the shaft of the tool.
Now for sharpening my various gouges, including my bowl gouges, I have built my own copy of the sharpening "system" from Darrell Feltmate's "Around the Woods" website. (Pictures included!) So I put the base of the spindle gouges handle into the "pocket" on the base of the extendible arm and it sharpens up nicely.
This action however does not create the fingernail grind I saw and want to try out. For the bowl gouges I have to use the extra jig I made from the same website. It works very well for that and I have a very easy time putting a sweet edge on that gouge.
So I have been trying to work it out without butchering my spindle gouge and decided I would ask here for pointers and help rather than turning my gouge into the same gouge just several inches shorter. :) The 2 thoughts I had were:
1- Use a jig like the one for my bowl gouges. And sweep the handle back and forth in the same manner as the bowl gouge. But this could make the side edges very thin and weak if I am wrong.
or
2- Change the angle of the base support to a different probably longer angle and roll it back and forth in the same way I am now. But again this could produce a tool unusably thin.
So can anyone fill me in on it? How do I put a good usable fingernail grind on my spindle gouges.
Hummm... Just had a thought. I have a harbor freight not far from my house. I think I will go and buy a nice cheap set of their "9 tools for $9" and once I have an expert opinion here I will try that one first. That way if I screw it up I am out almost nothing and my good tools remain properly un-slaughtered. ;)
Thanks,
Joshua
I haven't posted in a while though I have been quite busy. Both turning and getting married. Amazing how the one cuts into the time of the other. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which one cuts into the time of the other... :)
I have made a few really nice bowls, read lots and lots of bowls and a few that I really think were great!, and had a lot of fun in the last year. But recently I started looking for more ideas of things to made and found a few shows with Dave Hout as the expert on the DIY TV network. This show fit the bill as it had some interesting ideas for things to turn and techniques to use. So I wanted to play!
But he uses a spindle gouge with a fingernail grind on it. This caught my attention as it looks very different than the ones that I have. Mine are what I believe to be the traditional spindle grind. I.e. when viewed from the top it looks flat and squared off but when viewed from the side the proper bevel is present. When I sharpen it I place it in the jig and rotate the tool around the center of the shaft of the tool.
Now for sharpening my various gouges, including my bowl gouges, I have built my own copy of the sharpening "system" from Darrell Feltmate's "Around the Woods" website. (Pictures included!) So I put the base of the spindle gouges handle into the "pocket" on the base of the extendible arm and it sharpens up nicely.
This action however does not create the fingernail grind I saw and want to try out. For the bowl gouges I have to use the extra jig I made from the same website. It works very well for that and I have a very easy time putting a sweet edge on that gouge.
So I have been trying to work it out without butchering my spindle gouge and decided I would ask here for pointers and help rather than turning my gouge into the same gouge just several inches shorter. :) The 2 thoughts I had were:
1- Use a jig like the one for my bowl gouges. And sweep the handle back and forth in the same manner as the bowl gouge. But this could make the side edges very thin and weak if I am wrong.
or
2- Change the angle of the base support to a different probably longer angle and roll it back and forth in the same way I am now. But again this could produce a tool unusably thin.
So can anyone fill me in on it? How do I put a good usable fingernail grind on my spindle gouges.
Hummm... Just had a thought. I have a harbor freight not far from my house. I think I will go and buy a nice cheap set of their "9 tools for $9" and once I have an expert opinion here I will try that one first. That way if I screw it up I am out almost nothing and my good tools remain properly un-slaughtered. ;)
Thanks,
Joshua