Easy Wood carbide tools

[Bill Boehme]

My grinder has two Norton 3X blue wheels. The coarse one is about 40 grit and the fine one is 80 grit. It came with a coarse silicon carbide gray wheel which isn't very good for turning tools and a 120 grit white aluminum oxide wheel which I consider to be too fine as well as too hard ... not to mention that the white wheels throw grit all over the place.

I mainly use a Tormek.

 

[john lucas]

That grinder and those wheels should work great.

 

[Peter Kaup]

Peter - did you use the grinder/jig method of sharpening before you bought the Sorby system? Your thoughts on how the Sorby system is better? Thanks

I learned on the Oneway Wolverine system. Slow speed grinder and white wheels. I wasted a lot of steel until I got the “technique” .
I Like the Sorby system. The only complaint is that their jig does not fit my large bowl gouges. 3/4”. Had emails with Sorby but they did not have a solution. Also if you have a old, short gouge their jig will not function properly.
Other than that it is easy to resharpen an existing profile.
With the proper belt grits you can get a “scary” sharp edge.
For hogging off I use a 80 grit belt but for final cuts I use a 400 grit. And a Trizact belt 3000 grit. It is a flat grind (no hollow ground)
Very easy to touch my scrappers, gouges etc.