G'day
I use a Woodcut jig to sharpen nearly all my tools but I have a P&N 12mm bowl gouge that I cannot get a satisfactory grind on using my jig.I prefer a moderate fingernail grind on my bowl gouges , but when I try to sharpen this gouge I get a high point on the shoulder which catches something horrible.I sharpen my gouges with the angle on the jig set at 2 and the distance set at 134.This works OK on a P&N 16mm supaflute,a 16mm hamlet gouge,a 22mm hamlet gouge and 9.5mm Mcjing gouge.I am using a 200mm CBN wheel and the axle height of the wheel is 145mm from the bench. I have tried all sorts of settings but am just wasting a lot of steel .I can muck around and sharpen freehand or selectivly grind off the high points on the shoulders and get a multifacet grind but I would much prefer to be able to do a quick touch up using the jig to keep the tool sharp.
This gouge does seem to have a proportionaly deeper flute than the other gouges and this may be the source of the problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should change the settings on my jig to fix this problem?
I tried to get pictures of the grind but my camera could not cope.
Ted