I do turn a fair amount of Oregon Myrtle wood, which is actually California Bay Laurel, but that is a marketing thing..... Anyway, the last two batches of logs have been very difficult to get good clean cuts on. Most of the time I sharpen my gouges on the 180 grit CBN wheels. Fair results, but I wanted better. I tried 320 and 600 grit wheels, still the same results. Same with shear scraping where I tried the same grinder burrs, and even the honed and burnished edges. So, on a whim, I went back to the 80 grit CBN wheel. Surprisingly, I got a much cleaner cut with that grit than with the others, with both gouges and shear scraping. I then flashed back to the traditional Big Ugly tool users on the Oregon coast who generally sharpened on 60 to 80 grit standard grinding wheels. Some times you just have to experiment to find out what works best for each piece of wood... The argument for coarse vs. fine wheels continues...
robo hippy
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