Sharpening Gouges By Hand. My brother, who lives about a thousand miles away, had just acquired a small bench lathe but had no tools. When you buy a gouge, it often comes with an edge on it, but most often it does not have an inner bevel. There's not really any way to use a jig like this one, or the varigrind, or the ellsworth, unless you have some kind of a separate jig for sharpening chisels.
This is where you will have to learn to hone by hand.
How smooth we'll leave a surface. Each bowl gouge sharpening needs to be consistent and easily repeatable as the saying goes, an almost sharp bowl gouge will almost cut wood. I don't want to have to remove too much material to make up for mistakes. A must read for anyone ideally we should all learn how to sharpen all those cutting edges easily and well by hand. Remember that i bought that hirsch #7 35mm gouge two weeks ago from highland hardware? I still find most individuals learn sharpening with no other jig than their tool rest and hands—at least for most tools. There are a number of gouge sharpening jigs available for purchase that aid in putting a fingernail gring on a bowl gouge or splindle gouge. What tips and tricks do i need to know when sharpening curved edge tools?
