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Hi Lynn

Turning tool will not catch if the bevel rides the wood, it won't even
cut.
The tool does not cut the grinding stone, unless jammed between wheel
and rest for instance.
Just pay attention and there won't be any problems.

What Leo means to say is that if your bevel rides the wood you can't _start_
a cut. Once you've started, of course, the bevel lays on where you've been
as you work toward where you're going. Difference being the shaving
removed. Should be touching the bevel where you've been, it's the second
safe point in cutting. The first is the toolrest.

When grinding, just laying the bevel on the wheel with mild pressure can
allow removal of some steel. That's what you want to happen. Whether you
use the rest on the grinder and the bevel of the tool as your first two
steady points or a jig makes no difference. Just don't lift the handle of
the tool with the bevel in contact, because, as you know, that's the same
action you use on the lathe to start the cut, only here rock grinds steel
rather than steel peeling wood.

Which, by the way, is the second reason I grind freehand. It's easy,
because you're really performing the same actions you perform on the lathe,
and it takes some really major changes in gouge contour to make any
significant difference in cutting presentation. That's why there are so
many gouges and so many grinds on the same gouge!