Lot of puzzling things about sharpening. You would figure with high speed
steel, low speed grinder and soft bond wheels you should be able to position
the bevel by feel alone, as if you were honing on a flat stone.

As to cutting, it's a paradox. The narrow cut cares less about a regular
edge than the broad, which makes a worse cut anyway, so why worry about
"facets" you only see.

At least that's how I do both. It's wrong, as I have been told more than
once, but the shavings flow....

"David Walthall" wrote in message
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I know, a lot of people have sharped gouges before. I, in fact, have
done so many times in the past. The joy of this one was that I
managed to sharpen it in one pass, perfectly, without a jig. I used
one smooth motion and ended up with gleaming metal across the entire
bevel of the gouge, one facet. As I looked at it, I wished that I
still had access to the Tormek that my old woodshop class had, and
thought of taking a picture. In the end, I admired it for a second
and went back to the lathe. It didn't cut any better than my
multi-faceted sharpenings did.

David