3/4 inch bowl gouge sharping

[Kurt Cozens]

My Wolverine Grinding System is too small to sharpen my 3/4 Inch bow gouge. How do you or others sharpen these large bowl gouges? My freehand sharpening is not adequate.

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[Forrest Forschmiedt]

Oneway makes a Vari-Grind jig with a large hole for bigger tools.

 

[Dennis J Gooding]

Interesting. My 20+ year old Vari-grind jig mikes out at about 0.81 inches and fits my 3/4" gouge comfortably. Perhaps you could enlarge yours by a bit of grinding with a dremel tool or hand drill.

 

[Bill Boehme]

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[John Tisdale]

As with Dennis, my vari-grind fits a 3/4" without a problem. Maybe Oneway came out with a smaller version recently.
For what it's worth, I used both the 3/4" Glaser and Thompson for years. Now that they are nubs, I plan to keep the handles and replace with 5/8" Dway.
Reason: I'm not a bowl guy and never venture out far enough over the toolrest to justify a 3/4" - I'm guessing that a 5/8" in those massive shot-filled handles will work just fine.
Perhaps guys doing big bowls need the size of a 3/4" that will go 3"++ over a rest - I never go over an inch as I only use bowl gouges to do the outside of hollow-forms.
To make a point, my gouge of choice was a 3/8" for Planet Mesquite - I only used the larger gouges in the "ker-chunkin" stage and the 5/8" was every bit as appropriate as the 3/4".
Actually my larger concern was the log snatching part of my anatomy - to hell with the gouge.

 

[odie]

My Wolverine Grinding System is too small to sharpen my 3/4 Inch bow gouge. How do you or others sharpen these large bowl gouges? My freehand sharpening is not adequate.

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Kurt......are you using the vari-grind jig, or the v-arm for sharpening your 3/4" gouge?

-----odie-----

 

[Richard Hodsdon]

Make yourself one. It should take all of 40 min to make one . take a block of wood about 35mm x 50mm x 50mm. Drill a 19mm 3/4" hole for the chisel to go through. On the top 50mm face drill and tap for an Cap screw to hold the chisel in place, on the bottom 50mm face drill at about 45 deg a hole for a 6mm (1/4" rod). Glue a rod about 150mm 200mm (6 8") in the 45 deg hole. Note all the holes drilled must be in the same plane ( I do this by clamping the block to the side of a square block/ angle plate and drilling in a drill press)

Now place the chisel in the holder and bend the rod, and or cut the rod to length so that it approximates the Varigrind and adjust. you now have a jig (very similar to an Ellsworth jig) specifically for your 3/4 " bowl gouge

 

[Damon McLaughlin]

Kurt, I have several of the Oneway Varigrind jigs, one of them is Oneway's model number 3074 which fits larger gouges up to 1-1/8". I use it on my 3/4" and 1" bowl gouges.