I have a Wolverine system which works ok. I guess I am wondering if there is anything such as a "quick touch-up" without using the grinder, like with a skew, just a few passes on a stone. Does honing and stroping only apply to skews and chisels?
I use a credit card sized diamond sharpening steel that I use to hone my gouges and my skew. I keep it near my lathe and just give a few passes to the edge and it keeps the tools sharp and they hold their edge for quite a while before I have to go to the grinder.
Like nava1uni I keep a diamond sharpener next to my lathe, and touch up the edge periodically of all of my tools (skew, bowl gouge, spindle gouge, spindle roughing gouge, parting tool etc.) Woodcraft periodically has the DMT diamond hones marked down from the $20ish range to the $8ish range and I just grabbed a few the last time they did this.
Because the Wolverine system leaves a hollow grind on the bevel, it is easy to place the handheld sharpener against the heel of the bevel, rock it forward till it touches the toe and just slide it along. You can touch up many times before the hone lines converge to the point where going back to the grinding wheel is needed.