I finally broke down and bought a sharpening jig...
After a lot of urging from the group to do my own sharpening, (my wife is the family sharpener), I went through free hand on a grinder and 1" belt, then tried a few shop made jigs..
For $110, the Tru-grind is a great value IMO, and would have saved me hours and days of building, adjusting and learning to use my own jigs...
I'm pretty much a beginner on lathe chisels and I've used up a set of $15 chisels in my experimentation, but with the T-G, I was putting edges on my tools that were sharper than I or my wife have been able to do... My conventional grind bowl gouges look and cut great and my swept wing gouges actually look a little like Bill Grumbine's... NOW I can practice some of the cuts on his video, which just don't work with a standard grind..
In about 2 hours, I sharpened all of my lathe tools, several center punches, a few drill bits and pretty much anything else that didn't run or duck...
As you can tell, I'm very impressed with it...
Mac