In article rs.com,
says...
Does anybody sharpen their lathe tools on an arkansas stone, or does this
take entirely too much time? Seeing I sharpen all my knives on an eight
inch stone why not do my gouges and skews also. And, if it is possible,
just how long do you think it would take to do a 3/4 gouge???

Just wondering........


I'm probably in the minority, but I have a couple of tools that I stone
the edge for. This is after using a file, sandpaper, coarse/fine hones,
then a ceramic "stone" for the final edge.

Of course, I use these tools so infrequently and for such a short period
of time that I don't mind the time or effort in keeping in practice with
the old-slow methods.