Peter,
More power to you, but our club demo lathe grinder sucks. As such, I have taught myself to sharpen on it without a nice platform or jig. I have also taught myself to sharpen on a sanding disk mounted on a block of wood on the lathe. This versatility has served me well.
Besides our demo lathe and other's workshops, I have sharpened tools at the Provo symposium and used whatever they had there. Packing my grinder, Wolverine, etc. is not always an option as much as I would like it to be. It does not mean that I need to be fast - just proficient.
Joe
demonstrates
all the jigs available to us, I feel there is NO
one should learn to turn on a pole lathe because there
have a grinder with (at least) a Wolverine jig attached.
Personally speaking, anywhere my tools go, my grinder (and