I finally broke down and bought a sharpening jig...

After a lot of urging from the group to do my own sharpening, (my wife is the
family sharpener), I went through free hand on a grinder and 1" belt, then tried
a few shop made jigs..

For $110, the Tru-grind is a great value IMO, and would have saved me hours and
days of building, adjusting and learning to use my own jigs...

I'm pretty much a beginner on lathe chisels and I've used up a set of $15
chisels in my experimentation, but with the T-G, I was putting edges on my tools
that were sharper than I or my wife have been able to do...
My conventional grind bowl gouges look and cut great and my swept wing gouges
actually look a little like Bill Grumbine's... NOW I can practice some of the
cuts on his video, which just don't work with a standard grind..

In about 2 hours, I sharpened all of my lathe tools, several center punches, a
few drill bits and pretty much anything else that didn't run or duck...

As you can tell, I'm very impressed with it...

Mac

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