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  1. #16
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    Woodturner 101, I am coming to Sydney in the next couple of weeks. If you want some help, I would only be too happy to come around.

    After spending the day with back in May at the GC woodturners. I strongly recommend taking up this offer. It isn't something that you will get the chance for very often but it is something that you take so much from,
    It would definitely be worth your while
    Cheers Ben

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    Thanks for the offer , I will probably go to the forum get together on the 24th with one of my mates who is also interested in wood turning although I have a party I am going to the night before so if I'm not to exhausted I will go.

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    Just a quick question, what are peoples thoughts on the GPW deluxe sharpening jig? I have tried to go without a sharpening jig for a while now but I can't seem to get a good edge on my bowl gouge and GPW is the closest place that sells a jig.

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    Excellent. It look like a copy(?) of the oneway system which I use.

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    great I will see if I can get it today. It doesn't appear to have a arm for doing bowl gouges with an ellsworth grind though, so where would I buy one of those?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodturner101 View Post
    great I will see if I can get it today. It doesn't appear to have a arm for doing bowl gouges with an ellsworth grind though, so where would I buy one of those?
    Possibly here: CWS Store - Woodcut Tru Grind Tool Holder Only | Carroll's Woodcraft Supplies
    ... Steve

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    I just read through the pdf instructions for the GPW deluxe jig, (pic attached), and it appears to already include an arm for fingernail grinds, the 'side-grind' attachment:

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    ... Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodturner101 View Post
    Just a quick question, what are peoples thoughts on the GPW deluxe sharpening jig? I have tried to go without a sharpening jig for a while now but I can't seem to get a good edge on my bowl gouge and GPW is the closest place that sells a jig.
    If you have all these bits: https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...hXp_jsFIX4WIk1

    You can do an Ellsworth grind by adjusting the jig and the extension of the tool in front of the jig.

    You might want to do a milder grind - swept back or Irish grind, and get some practice before you go to the Ellsworth.

    The Ellsworth can be quite aggressive and if you are not used to how fast and deep it cuts on the inside of a bowl, it can get exciting. As in the bowl going off to the farther parts of the shed, hopefully missing your head on the way.

    At the least you can get a very deep spiral trench.

    The fingernail grind here: http://www.d-waytools.com/images/too...l-gouge-lg.jpg

    is as much as I'm comfortable with. I have one about half way between the fingernail and the bottom feeder for the inside bottoms of bowls.

    In exchange for tuning a lathe, I was given a used Thompson 5/8 inch (actual size of tool) bowl gouge with an Ellsworth grind. I had been doing bowls about 3 years so I had a go with it. It was too much, too fast for me. With successive sharpenings I eased it back to the fingernail grind. I've been doing bowls about 6 years now and am more comfortable with the fingernail grind and a blunter one for the inside bottom.
    So much timber, so little time.

    Paul

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