How To Make A Gouge Sharpening Jig

These sharpening jigs give consistent grinds.

How to make a gouge sharpening jig. A sharp bowl gouge ensures better safer cutting when turning a bowl. My setup uses the Oneway Wolverine Shar. Learn how to sharpen your bowl gouge.

Place the extending bowl gouge tip in the measuring jig to the predetermined two-inch depth and tighten the hand screw. This instructional woodworking video to make a wooden jig for sharpening gouge tools on a grinding wheel. When sharpening a bowl gouge with an already established bevel angle start by placing the bowl gouge in the Wolverine Vari-Grind Jig and snug the hand screw.

Woodturning bowl gouge from an old 12 drill bit Make Your Own Bowl Gouge from Steel cold Chisel Profiles of custom made woodturning bowl gouges Al makes his own hollowing tool with home depot steel and carbide insert cutter. This HD video shows you how to grind and sharpen a Swept Back Irish or Ellsworth grind on a woodturning bowl gouge. I didnt know how to polish it so I made a sharpening jigIts still awkward.

Dont let the weight of a long gouge and handle push the jig forward in the cradle. Make a sharpening jig set up for bowl gouges. In the video below he shows you some of his favorite tools and how he made them from either old broken or leftover tools that are made.

Sharpening gouges with a jig When actually sharpening gouges with a jig or completing a new grind set the tool in the jig using the templates. WOOD magazines Brian Simmons shows you step by. The jig makes sharpening a gouge almost foolproof so you can get back to wood turning.

Ad Find Deals on Products in Power Tools on Amazon. Ad Find Deals on Products in Power Tools on Amazon. HelloNot long ago after I started a woodworking lathe I bought a bowl gouge.