KingBubbaTruck
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So, Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to sharpen my tools on an inexpensive Harbor freight wet/dry grinder. Tried to use the tools and discovered that instead of sharpening, my scrapers now were burnishers, and my gouges really did that, basically just gouged the wood. I tried making a woverine style jig to help keep the angles right, etc... Just couldn't get the hang of it.
I got fed up, and read the articles by Alan Lacer.
I bit the bullet and went to Lowes and bought the Delta 8 inch variable speed grinder. Just put it together and in a matter of minutes was able to sharpen my tools (free hand on the tool rests) to the point where they were really cutting quite nicely without even going through the honing (that's got to wait till later, I'm supposed to be working right now). The scraper scrapes shavings and the skew cuts like butter again. It had been a while since I really sharpened them, and It took a long time that time to get it right. This time it was a piece of cake.
I'm getting ready to turn a segmented blank I made yesterday and I didn't wan't to blow it out by using some poorly sharpened tools. Blowing out a piece of acrylic or a normal plain wood blank is annoying enough, I didn't want this glued up bunch of little wood chunks to fly apart from a catch due to a dull tool.
I think I found the info about him on this site, so I just wanted to say Thanks!
I got fed up, and read the articles by Alan Lacer.
I bit the bullet and went to Lowes and bought the Delta 8 inch variable speed grinder. Just put it together and in a matter of minutes was able to sharpen my tools (free hand on the tool rests) to the point where they were really cutting quite nicely without even going through the honing (that's got to wait till later, I'm supposed to be working right now). The scraper scrapes shavings and the skew cuts like butter again. It had been a while since I really sharpened them, and It took a long time that time to get it right. This time it was a piece of cake.
I'm getting ready to turn a segmented blank I made yesterday and I didn't wan't to blow it out by using some poorly sharpened tools. Blowing out a piece of acrylic or a normal plain wood blank is annoying enough, I didn't want this glued up bunch of little wood chunks to fly apart from a catch due to a dull tool.
I think I found the info about him on this site, so I just wanted to say Thanks!