How To Sharpen A Roughing Gouge Without A Jig

It can be a nightmare to try and sharpen wood turning chisels such as bowl spindle roughing gouges and you can easily ruin your expensive tools if your not careful.

How to sharpen a roughing gouge without a jig. In this third episode Nick Agar shows how to sharpen a roughing gouge with a few simple steps using the open seat of Tormeks Multi Jig SVS-50. Take the gouge you want to sharpen doesnt matter whether its big or small. I use a round fish hook sharpening diamond hone.

You dont want to round over that edge you just want the burr gone. Paul shows how to sharpen a gouge using his standard method rocking the gouge side to side. He uses flat stones in this case diamond stones in coarse 250.

The roughing gouge and spindle roughing gouge is very easy to use provided you use it in the correct manner. Keep it parallel to the flute. For example if you want to make a 40-40 grind start by grinding the 40 degree nose bevel square across without rolling the gouge.

Found the video with the roughing gouge. This weeks video shows how I sharpen mine. In this third episode Nick Agar shows how to sharpen a roughing gouge with a few simple steps using the open seat of Tormeks Multi Jig SVS-50.

Here are the bowl gouge sharpening techniques step-by-step. Its toward the end of this one. I often touch up at the lathe just with a diamond plate without going to the wheel.

Sharpening without a Jig This is fairly the same process as before less the adjustments of the gouge to the jig. At Lathe Tools UK we have dedicated ourselves to making top quality sharpening jigs that are simple to use whilst giving you the uniform sharp bevel edge we all need time after time. How to sharpen roughing gouges skews and parting tools using Tormek SVS-50 Multi Jig.