How To Make A Gouge Sharpening Jig

These sharpening jigs give consistent grinds.

How to make a gouge sharpening jig. Ad Find Deals on Products in Power Tools on Amazon. Learn how to sharpen your bowl gouge. 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.

Make a sharpening jig set up for bowl gouges. Al takes a common sense approach to making woodturning tools that will save you a ton of money. 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.

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. This HD video shows you how to grind and sharpen a Swept Back Irish or Ellsworth grind on a woodturning bowl gouge. HelloNot long ago after I started a woodworking lathe I bought a bowl gouge.

To use this jig just set the tip of you gouge 2 inches from your jig and lock the gouge in place with a thumb screw. I need to sharpen almost all of my chisels and plane blades so Ive decided to make this simple sharpening jig to streamline and improve the processMore in. Place the extending bowl gouge tip in the measuring jig to the predetermined two-inch depth and tighten the hand screw.

The jig makes sharpening a gouge almost foolproof so you can get back to wood turning. A sharp bowl gouge ensures better safer cutting when turning a bowl. I didnt know how to polish it so I made a sharpening jigIts still awkward.

I have the Wolverine Grinding Jig from OneWay and thats what I use to go along with jigs. WOOD magazines Brian Simmons shows you step by. This instructional woodworking video to make a wooden jig for sharpening gouge tools on a grinding wheel.