My pleasure. There is a video of the Irish grind bowl gouge on the site now.
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God bless and safe turning
Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS, Canada
www.aroundthewoods.com
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Darrell Feltmate wrote:
I still want to fix a couple of pictures but the sharpening pages are
done
or redone or whatever. Any comments are welcome.
http://aroundthewoods.com/sharpening01.html

Darrell,

Have been meaning to set up some type of system and your post prompted
me to get moving. I used your design with a few modifications.

I happened to have a set of strong drawer slides kicking around, and
they had a large triangle piece of metal on one end (was used to "hook"
the drawer front to the slider). One of these proved perfect as the
sliding base of the jig. To lock it in place at the distance from the
grinder, used a rubber tipped lockdown clamp that just presses down
against the slide. The triangular metal piece on the end worked well to
hold the v block in place.

Couple of things I noticed: It is very important to get the V in the
holder block to be exactly in the center of the wheel - I was slightly
off on my first attempt, and when I sharpened my first gouge, the
cutting edge was slightly lower on one side of the concave face. Once I
centered this, the cutting face was bang on.
Another thing was I used some 3/4 dowels - these were rather large when
sitting in the V block, and I found it affected the quality of the
cutting face as the "rocking motion " was not consistent - ground down
to more of a point where the dowel contacts the V, and it was much
easier to achieve a consistent face.

Last, but not least was my grinding wheel - I had picked up new one at
the local borg, simply marked as "Fine". Well, its not fine enough, I
find the edge is still a bit rough and I really need to get a better
wheel to achieve a smoother cutting face.

By the way, the one thing I really wanted to find an answer for was the
proper way to sharpen a bowl gouge that I have, it has the swept back
wings and I have been afraid to attempt to sharpen it for fear of
losing the face. I got a kick out of the fact the One picture you did
not have was of this gouge being sharpened! : )

All that said, your page was very informative and I don't think I would
have attempted the jig had it not been for the pictures you have of
your setup - I find I am more inclined to understand something visually
than written, and your page provided the perfect instructions for me.

Well Done, and Thank You!