How To Sharpen A Bowl Gouge Without A Jig

Practice keeping the angle fixed on the wheel quite a few times before you turn it on.

How to sharpen a bowl gouge without a jig. First well color the cutting edge of the gouge to determine if our grinding platform is set at the desired angle. Place a pen or pencil along the side of the bowl gouge and use your thumb to mark the width of the gouge. This video demonstrates how to sharpen a Bowl Gouge.

This process is optimal if youd like to replicate your tools factory grind. A fingernail profile with a 55 degree sweep and 50 degree nose bevel angle would be good for a bowl gouge. Its a good idea to have bowl gouges with different grinds.

Other angles can be used according to preference or for particular purposes. 1 Position the bowl gouge in the jig with the pointed leg of the jig facing backward and down. Tighten the thumbscrew until it is snug against the flute of the bowl gouge.

Put on your faceshield turn on the grinder and place your gouge on the toolrest at an angle so the middle of the bevel will touch the surface of the wheel. At Lathe Tools UK we have dedicated ourselves to making top quality sharpening jigs that are simple to use whilst giving you the uniform sharp bevel edge we all need time after time. Make a sharpening jig set up for bowl gouges.

This instructional woodworking video to make a wooden jig for sharpening gouge tools on a grinding wheel. Lock the thumb screw and read the angle under the little tick mark indicator. Sharpening expert David Carter is sharpening a 58 bowl gouge using a sl.

We demonstrate sharpening the roughing gouge without the use of the wolverine jig. The jig makes sharpening a gouge almost. Place the flat portion of the protractor base flush against the center of the bowl gouge flute.