VikingCode
27th February 2017, 09:06 AM
This is the 'King Heiple' sharpening jig, plans over at http://stwt.org/pdf/king%20heiple%20sharp%20jig.pdf It was published by FineWoodworking in a book I believe, but they released the extract/single page.
A DIY approach for sharpening turning tools. We (by "we" I mean my wife bought with my money) bought a new Vicmarc grinder + vicmarc CBN wheel. Previously on our 6" full speed grinder, we had a Woodcut Trugrind that neither of us were a fan of, but the budget was flatlined because of the grinder/wheel, so I was 'forced' to build a system as I didn't really want to deal with the problems of the Trugrind anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws_JoC4BXOQ
All up ~$6.70 in hardwood from Bunnings (90x45, F17/Vic Ash), ~$5-6 for 1m x 20mm x 5mm aluminium strip from Bunnings and some left over hardwood plywood (Kokoda, from Maxiply). Not too shabby. And, IMO, works better than the TruGrind because I can use it with my roughing gouge or traditional bowl gouge grinds.
A DIY approach for sharpening turning tools. We (by "we" I mean my wife bought with my money) bought a new Vicmarc grinder + vicmarc CBN wheel. Previously on our 6" full speed grinder, we had a Woodcut Trugrind that neither of us were a fan of, but the budget was flatlined because of the grinder/wheel, so I was 'forced' to build a system as I didn't really want to deal with the problems of the Trugrind anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws_JoC4BXOQ
All up ~$6.70 in hardwood from Bunnings (90x45, F17/Vic Ash), ~$5-6 for 1m x 20mm x 5mm aluminium strip from Bunnings and some left over hardwood plywood (Kokoda, from Maxiply). Not too shabby. And, IMO, works better than the TruGrind because I can use it with my roughing gouge or traditional bowl gouge grinds.