My father got himself an amazing new Jet Wetstone system with all the bells and whistles for sharpening wood turning chisels. I watched the DVD part on sharpening gouges with the gouge jig and felt confident I could sharpen my chisels with ease.
Well it turned out to be a disaster! I destroyed one or my gouges completely. I am not sure exactly what I did wrong as I followed the instructions from the DVD as best as I could. I basically ground the angle on my gouge too shallow, I havent even bothered to try and fix them as I am too scared I am going to destroy them even further.
I am going to see if I can get the expert and Strand Hardware to try and help me re-grind my gouge back to something usable. I did have a great deal of success with the skew chisel and the large bowl gouge. They are both razor sharp. Wish me luck! I don't want to have to go and buy a new chisel now after dropping so much cash on a new Nova chuck!
I think this is a wonderful tool, a bit expensive, but once I can learn how to use I think it will be indispensable!
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