Roughing gouge

After 3 months of use I decided to sharpen my roughing gouge. I am now renaming it my smoooooothing gouge. Whooee - won't wait so long next time.

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Norbert
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three months? that poor gouge must have cut like a hunk of copper pipe, sideways :-)

Darrell

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Darrell Feltmate

Was there some reason that you decided to sharpen it so soon?

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M.J.

Never mind those two roughnecks;-) I was there too, and I bet you get a lot more bright moments like that. It's called learning:-)

BjarteR

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Bjarte Runderheim

You know, turning probably isn't any woodworkers introduction to edge tools. I'll bet most people start with chisels. It doesn't take long with those to know a sharp chisel does more and better work than a dull one. Why wouldn't the same idea apply to your roughing gouge/spindle gouge/whatever?

So for me, three months seems excessively long.

During the one class I took about turning the instructor was resharpening fairly often *during* the turning session. One might get the idea that frequent sharpening helps.

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George Max

Learning? I have to learn? I tell ya, there goes the neighborhood :-)

Darrell

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Darrell Feltmate

You're more the teacher, considering your most excellent website.

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Brent

Trust me Brent, there is so much to learn it is scary. I am off to direct camp for a month. No turning for too long.

Darrell Feltmate

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Darrell Feltmate

might be a relative thing, Darrell... a few years ago, that would have been about 1 bowl or whatever turned.. lol

Mac

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mac davis

that's the key right there... a class...

I was self taught, because I bought a Shopsmith and it happened to come with a set of lathe chisels..

A few years later, my brother came down to learn to turn and asked if the lathe chisels were supposed to have an edge on them.. *g*

He used his flat work experience to do a crude sharpening and I was amazed how much difference it made...

I've learned now to touch up the edge often, whether it "needs it or not".... I think you tend to just gradually add pressure to make up for sharpness without realizing it... not a good plan!

Mac

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mac davis

think jet mini and a small generator.. *g*

Mac

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mac davis

Hi Darrell, I don't know if you will have the time away from directing the camp, but IMO you would "do us a very good turn today" by designing, making and showing us how to turn on a bungee lathe using simple tools and found materials.

Judging by your vacation pics, you have the leg for it and we know that you have the turning, teaching, sharing and innovating talents that would give us a great summer time project for the younger guys to do and the old coots to think about and criticise. ....and it would not threaten Bill's Stubby sales. :)

Whether or not you have the time or the inclination, I hope you have a very productive and satisfying camp.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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Arch

Hi, all. Back to me eh.

i should have stated that I changed the angle of the grind. the gouge was cutting OK - a tribute to the quality of the steel as much as my abity to sharpen.

sorry- i"ve been cutting grass forever today, and it's Canada day, so I have to drink some beer.

Where weree we - oh yeah the new angle - combined with a new wood -(I am exploring, cherry - It smells like that cherrry gum when you cut it! - which just adds to the wonder of it.) produces a curling shaving which is much longer and smoother than any I have made up till now. So there you have it.

Cherry - don't get me started. I have been an advocate of love the wood your with - but I could Marry Cherry, and forsake all others.

Happy Dominion/Canada day woodturners!

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Norbert

Arch me son, a bungee cord lathe in the woods? It does sound like fun, but I doubt that I will get a chance. I have four weeks of directing a Bible camp on the shore at Pugwash, Nova Scotia. As far as I know it is the only community to win a Nobel Peace Prize. It looks beautiful too.

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Darrell Feltmate

And a happy Dominion Day back at ya from the heart of Nova Scotia. Just a suggestion Norbert, but a grinding jig is a thing of joy. Remember to sharpen often. We sharpen not to grind a new edge when the tool is dull but to refresh an edge before it is dull. Anything else is just grinding.

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Darrell Feltmate

The Pugwash Conferences won the prize.

Reply to
Lobby Dosser

Easiest tool to sharpen. Angle is the same all the way. My most-sharpened, since it's used on every project, and often when the bark and grit are still in place.

Hope you had a happy day, and didn't take too much beer. Rollover of a nearly new Silverado last night from the usual "two beers" type. He was belted, so no great harm to him. As to the truck, well best not think of that, though I didn't have to wait around for the hook to see that it's a parts only now.

You sound like my eldest. He came in the door one day and announced with all the wonder a three-year-old could muster that "the weeds beside the back porch smell just like green gum."

Love spearmint in my tea, and am hoisting a glass to Canada. On call, you know, so nothing stronger.

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George

"On call, you know, so nothing stronger". Enjoy your tea, George.

We who are downing a responsible few, enjoying an uninterrupted holiday with family & friends while taking a day or two off salute George and all EMTs. I've seen more than one person alive on several July 5ths because of EMTs being on call.

Thanks George and all your crew. The rest of you enjoy the holiday, but be very careful out there, including visitors in your shops and at your lathes.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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Arch

In wood turning I am self taught. I bought my first lathe, a set of tools, and proceded to read everything I could get my hands on. And I learned. Sharpening the tools was not an issue.

I grew up in the 50's when every boy had a pocket knife. My dad showed me how to carve safely, using a stop cut. At school we played mumble peg. I never came home with a cut toe. In middle school the teacher taught us how to sharpen tools and that a dull tool was dangers. Drafting was a part of shop.

In high school shop was part of school. You decided what you were going to build, you designed it, and you built it, then you wrote a report on it. My project was a turned pewter mug. I was required to make all tools and forms. The mug was not worth much. But I learned a lot in the process. A knife that could not shave the hair on the back of your arm was not safe for use.

My son was not allowed to bring a knife to school. He did not learn how to sharpen a knife in shop. His friends learned to shote a BB gun in our back yard. It was a safer and better time.

Henry

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Henry

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