Thread: Jig for gouge fingernail grinds

Ern,
You are a little ripper! I emailed Jean Michelle a few years ago, but never got a reply.

Turns out the poor bugger had carked it, so wasn't really interested in sending them to me!

I have a blown up fuzzy version from the existing website, which someone has recreated to keep the work alive, bless 'em.

Thanks,

P

LOL. No probs BM.

Yeah, some kind folks are maintaining his website but the plans aren't there. He kindly sent them some ago before heading off to the big jig shop in the sky.

Wonder what is doing up there, or down there ;-} Prob laughing his t*ts off.

Hi guys,I have those plans somewhere,from Jean Michel,I must have 8-10 pages,a friend on another site emailed them to me a year ago,and I'll have a look when I get a chance.They're very detailed,.
He told me even though it will take some time to make them,it's well worth it.
Also,I have a pretty simple jig for doing fingernail grinds,I'll take a pic and post it.
Talk to you later,Steve

Oh,also I was told Jean Michell had passed away,I forgot to mention this.
Sorry,Steve.

Yep Steve, though as you could have read above, BM let us know.

Originally Posted by rsser

Yep Steve, though as you could have read above, BM let us know.

I'm guessin' "carked" isn't in common use in Canada Ern

Good point Vern.

... won't bother consulting my English/French dictionary for a translation.

Make it up? Cark = onomatopoeia: last sound made by dying person.

Reminds me of the genre 'last words by great men': the one who said with croaking voice 'my last words are in the file on the desk'. Now that's preparation ;-}

LOL,my God guys,yere as bad as me!!!lol.Now I'm sure I'm in the right place,lol.
Although I've been on a couple of forums which had very little humor,and I kind of was careful how I wrote stuff.This forum is much more "me".
Carked I guess would work in that sentence up here.
Croaked is what we'ld usually say though,,,,,similar.
Oh,but we wouldn't use that word to a member of that persons family,,,not usually anyway,lol.
I'm going to go now and take a pic of my little jig,and try to have it posted before Christmas.You've surely seen the one I use before,but I'll post it anyway.I'm a beginner,2 years fooling around with turning,but I can do a really great job sharpening my gouges,honest,lol.
Talk to you soon,Steve
Opps,just learned how to use the emoticons!!

Originally Posted by TTIT

I'm guessin' "carked" isn't in common use in Canada Ern

I almost had to use the strine decoder website...
not commonly used here in the land of the seppo.
JM's s site has good info.
I hope he's turning in the grave.

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I'm on the right forum,lol.
"Sorry,I couldn't hear you,I was talking",unknown..

Anyone who needs or uses a grinding jig is;
A: no sort of bluddy woodturner
B: not likely to be any sort of woodturner.
C: A bluddy dill! (please don't blame me, Cliff made me say it!)

or D: a pro woodturner looking for easy repetition of std grinds in order not to waste expensive HSS

So which of these are you Christopha?

Originally Posted by Christopha

Anyone who needs or uses a grinding jig is;
A: no sort of bluddy woodturner
B: not likely to be any sort of woodturner.
C: A bluddy dill! (please don't blame me, Cliff made me say it!)

I went out to the shed to slap sealer on the endgrain of some massive chunks of red ironbark I just scored and thought about this.
While I tend to dismiss blanket statements such as the above
as so much hogwash (or in your case perhaps sheepdip)...
I also thought about the merits of being able to grind freehand and they are
plenty.
My hands are not steady. I do some grinding freehand and some using a jig. There is no one true thing, all things are true.
tm

True.

A jig is good for beginners because it takes a major variable out of the equation. For a pro ditto though it adds to the downtime.

A straight across grind you can do easily enough with just a platform but a freehand Irish grind would take a deal of practice, downtime and lost steel. Once mastered I imagine you'd get a kick out of it.

Whatever floats your boat.