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I'll preface this by saying I have no knowledge of penturning. Neither do I know if I'm in the right place – but you seem a competent bunch, so I’m hoping you’ll help me out! I was gifted a handmade mechanical pencil that I have unfortunately now dropped, breaking the inside mechanism (premade...

I have an 8" slow grinder purchased from Woodcraft about 3 years ago. I can honestly say up until 2 years ago, it was rarely used as I was afraid to ruin my tools b/c I didn't know how to use it. Anyway, I went to use it today to sharpen a roughing gouge. It seemed to barely get up to full...