coffelt2 wrote:
Looking for advise here. There have been threads here about lathe tool
sharpening,
and I think Ive read them all. For 6 or 7 years.
I see Grizzly has an 8" wet grinder with a leather strop (?) wheel.

http://www.grizzly.com/products/8-Gr...arpener/T10097

I've got, and use, an 8", high speed tool post grinder, and had been
thinking of a finer grit stone, but a good stone costs almost as much as
I paid for the whole grinder. The darn thing is just too fast and
unforgiving
for my level of experience. especially trying to eyeball grind a good
"fingernail"
grind (I think some here call it) Once in a while I hit it right, and then
the
turning is just so much fun it is hard to stop!

What do you think? I hope to coax SWMBO to stop by Bellingham
Grizzly showroom with me next week.

Old Chief Lynn

I have a high speed grinder which I never use for sharpening, a low
speed white wheel which I seldom use, a horizontal water stone
sharpener which I seldom use. My favorite for sharpening turning
tools is a grizzly 1" x 40 belt sander with a blue zirconia belt. I
have the little table set at the angle I sharpen at and can put a new
edge on a fingernail bowl gouge in seconds. Of course it is a
dedicated sharpener. wouldn't want wood dust down there where the
sparks go to die

Sometime I knock the wire edge off with a slipstone inside the gouge
but I can't seem to see any advantage to doing this since it is
knocked off the second the gouge meets a bowl blank.

Happy turning, Chief!

--
G.W. Ross

Whatever their other contributions to
society lawyers could be an important
source of nutrition.