My Gouge is SHARP!!!

[bmchan]

Originally posted by Rojo22
<br /> I regularly hone with the diamond stone, but after 50 or so hone cycles, new steel is needed to get the blade back into the sharpest form......

Sorry to keep this post going but I'm new to pens and to the Lathe. When using the gouge on a pen blank, I go back and forth to the wheel. I do it freehand. Is it possible to hone a gouge on a stone? The angle just seems to ends up a WAG when doing it freehand on a wet stone.

 

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Originally posted by jjenk02
<br />If your going to cut me, cut me with a sharp knife, not a dull one[8D]

OK, but do you want it hollow-ground, flat-ground, ground then honed or "scary" sharp...and then once we decide that, would you like a micro bevel or just a single bevel...and if it's a plane iron, we can discuss back-bevels [][]

You guys are sane....um, more sane....compared to the hand tool guys and the way they talk about sharpening.

Grind and turn versus hone and hone and hone and see yourself in your edge and then make little curlies with your plane......and talk about how much fun it is to make little curlies and how thin your curlies should be.

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[bmchan]

Ahh yes - see-through curlies. My question was: Do I need to go to the grinder every time?