A sheepish admission about Wolverines (no, not furry nor maize & blue)

The Oneway site has a video on the Wolverine jig and they will send you a CD of that video free. It is excellent. One thing they point out, the jig will not automatically form the edge you want. It will guarantee a smooth shape. So if your gouge is too pointy, grind more on the point to blunt it. Not much different from doing it by hand but more repeatable.

The video shows how to sharpen a skew but I bought their skew jig. I'm not in love with the skew jig but it does a better job than I could do by hand.

So get a copy of their video!

Hope this helps,

Harry

Also check out the AAW Sharpening Video. Much of that uses the Wolverine.

Thanks for your good response, Harry. Their website info seems to be more complete than the package instructions. No doubt Wolverine owners already know about Oneway's Web info, making my post a bit foolish and totally unnecessary. WebTv can't access Oneway's video or the request for a CD, but I got to their page and I will order by landline. I ought to post here less often and dust off my Vic-20, maybe upgrade to my Commodore 64. Nah! that's much too technical. :)

In the excitement of this morning's sporty bevels, I just _had to spread the word on rcw and completely forgot about Oneway's web site. I'm redfaced and wish I could retract the foolish post....as well as quite a few others.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Thank you from me as well Harry. I had no idea Oneway had these CD's available. I've requested the Wolverine as well as the Easy-core videos for our AAW chapter's library.

Nope. Got the info out to a wider audience. I didn't even know Oneway makes them, let alone has a video.

I own the Wolverine Jig. I love it. But my biggest trouble for a while was getting it set up to do a correct fingernail grind on my bowl gouge. A little over a year ago I took David Ellsworth's class on turning bowls. I took my whole grinder and jig setup with me to see what his suggestion might be. The two problems I had were getting both the height and the angle of the Vari Grind Attachment in the right spot for my 8 inch grinding wheel. I could get close to what I wanted but not exact. First, David suggested (and helped me make) a small riser block that fits into the sliding Vee Arm. This gave me the height I needed to bring the pivot point up to the proper specks. I then decided to purchase one of David's side grind attachments because it already has the correct angle and length. I use this for my main bowl gouge all the time. I use the Wolverine Vari Grind Attachment that came with the Wolverine for any special tools I might need to grind.

Another thing that I have done to save time is to put hose a clamp around the shaft of the Vee Arm at the exact spot that I need for grinding my bowl gouge. It seems that all other grinding that I do with the Vee Arm needs the arm out farther than where I put the clamps. That way all I have to do when I am done grinding a skew or whatever is slide the arm back to the clamps and I am ready to grind my bowl gouge without the fuss figuring our where it needs to be. Every so often after I dress the grinding wheel I adjust the clamps so they are in the right position again.

To do this adjustment I have made a 4inch by 7 inch rectangle our of a thin piece of plywood. I stick one corner in the craddle and the diagonal corner touching the grinding wheel and level the top with a torpedo level. At that point the distances are all correct again so I move and retighten the hose clamps and I am back in business.

Sorry my juvenile reference to maize & blue evoked ? email. It was an oblique reference to Michigan University colors & their mascot just to nudge George. Surely 'furry' is self evident. Today is groundhog day in Pennsylvania, but have no fear. I'll refrain from the awful OT of teasing Ruth.

G & :) for those who a smile isn't painful.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Well, undergrad was Gold and Blue, grad Orange, so no problem with University of Michigan maize, which I just took as a corny remark.

Interestingly, there is no evidence whatsoever for wolverines ever inhabiting Michigan state.

Dental work?

Arch,

I wrote a tutorial for sharpening. You can find it under the tips section of the San Diego Woodturners website at:

discuss seting up the Wolverine in that. As far as making various shapes on a bowl gouge, the Wolverine can pretty much do everything. Please take note of my discussion in the tutorial about setting the sliding arm distance and the swing arm angle. The slider controls the side grind and the swing arm controls the nose grind.

Point or round is still left up to the user's technique. By sweeping through the nose grind more or less aggressively, you can control the shape to some extent. Please remember that a "V" shaped flute, like a Glaser, will be inherently more pointy than a rounder flute like a Sorby.

Joe Fleming - San Diego

If anyone is too impatient to wait for the free videos, you can download the videos directly from the OneWay web site.

http://www.>This COC could never really see the need to use sharpening jigs and has

UP?

Nope, not even fossil evidence.

the big snows and the large forested areas, not much in the way oflarge ungulates to feed a population. BTW, not what I'd pick as a mascot, having smelled a denning area....

IIRC they are extremely fierce, rumored to be able to bring a horse down.

Bill

Odd, I'm pretty sure they're found in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Would have thought the UP would have them.

And reputedly urinate on prospective mates prior to copulating, which may explain the smell!

I have heard that they will chew right into bear proof food caches - or into cabins.

Now if only Kel McNaughton would only do the same thing with the Center Saver!

...Kevin

Hey! What a coincidence; it was groundhog day here in Orygun as well. Who'd a thunk it? BTW, it was pea soup foggy here all day.

Well, scent-marking is pretty common in the mammals, though I generally have to shower after turning elm before SWMBO will have anything to do with me.

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In North America, their historical geographic range extended south from Canada and Alaska , through the montane regions of the West to southern California, Utah, Colorado, and into the Midwest. Their range contracted northward with the advance of European settlement into historically occupied wolverine habitat. Remnant populations are believed to inhabit today only the higher elevation habitats in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, and possibly Colorado, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, and California (Sleeper 1995). According to Verts (1998), the critical component of modern day wolverine habitat is the absence of human activity and development. Similarly, Hornocker and Hash (1991) found that wilderness and remote country are essential to wolverine population viability. They also established that the animals prefer ecotones and good cover; the wolverines they studied were extremely reluctant to cross large openings, such as recent clearcuts or burns.

Healthy populations of wolverines appear to exist in Montana and Idaho, but scientist have been unable to locate populations in other plausible mountain locations, such as southwest Colorado or the Cascades of Washington (Stuebner 1997). Hornocker and Hash (1981) state that Montana is the only northwestern state with a viable population. Across their historic range, wolverine numbers are dropping (Wilkinson 1998). Distributional surveys of the wolverine's historic range are necessary to discover the extent of their current habitat use.

Gulo gulo is increasingly rare in the southern limits of her habitat due to human disturbance and habitat fragmentation (Hornocker and Hash, 1980: Thelander 1994; Primm and Clark, 1996). Wolverine numbers have dipped significantly across their range in the past 100 years due to hunting, trapping, poisoning, and habitat destruction caused by human settlement, forest clearing, and mining (Wilkinson 1998). They have evaded trap and camera in California for over 75 years; wildlife biologist Thomas Kucera acknowledges that "the species may already be extinct in the state" (Sleeper

1995).

Leif

Just found this:

[Documented Wolverine Sighting in Michigan

On February 24, 2004, near the small town of Ubly, Michigan in Huron County, a wolverine was observed and photographed. This is a rare and historic documentation of the presence of a wolverine in Michigan. There is evidence suggesting the recent increase of wolverine numbers in Ontario, Canada, with limited sightings occurring in the central and southern portion of the Province. (See: Ontario Boreal Wolverine Project Updates) However, there is little evidence to support the presence of a free ranging wolverine population in Michigan. Whether this Michigan animal represents a possible disperser from Ontario, or an escaped captive individual, is unknown.

The wolverine is a low density carnivore which inhabits arctic and subarctic regions and its encounters with humans are uncommon. The absence of wolverines from historical ranges may be related to human activity as much as from reductions in habitat. As transient wolverines (usually young dispersing individuals) attempt to colonize or travel through areas of human habitation, their probability of survival is significantly compromised. We would encourage everyone to recognize the vulnerability of a potentially displaced individual.]

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