How to Sharpen Wood Turning Tools 

That piece of machinery looks amazing! You can SEE the build quality. I need one!

This video was easy to understand and very well presented. Thank you Mr. Carter.

Just got myself a lathe (with some blunt tools thrown in)! A helpful, informative and clearly spoken demonstration, thankyou. Barry from England

Wonderful tutorial. Thanks for demystifying tool sharpening. I’m having a heck of a time sharpening mine and they really need it.

Very nice guide and beautiful looking tools

Thank you Sir, great tutorial, well explained , without time wasting .

Awesome! Thank you so much for posting this. I have been having a devil of a time sharpening my tools. This should make it much more accurate.

Nicely done.

This is the exact video I’ve been looking for. I’ve been using carbides for three years (don’t judge 🤣) but just got my CBN wheel setup. I’m going to practice on my cheap Harbor Freight set, and then go for some high quality tools. Thanks for the instructional video!

Thanks, for showing how & sharing that, happy new year

Thanks for your teaching and demonstration.

great video! Thanks for taking the time to make it and post it on RU-vid. much appreciated.

Great video! Thanks for so many useful tips!!! People who CAN teach and you certainly CAN teach - thank you again - so much!

Awesome tutorial !!! It really helped to see it so straight forward and clear. David your knowledge and experience are appreciated and so helpful , Hope to see more from you sir!!!

Excellent lesson on sharpening. Thanks 👍👏👏👏😃

Great instruction! Thank you from a beginner 🤗

Yall make some awesome looking tools. Hope to one day get to try some out

Beautiful tools

thanks for the video, it is helpful

This was a beutifull explanation, thankyou.

Thanks for this video!

Thank you! Helpful.

Very nice video. Many thanks.

That was superb!

Ty ftom a newbie to lathe turning .much appreciated

Awesome info!

you know of all the sharpening videos I don't think I had seen anyone say to check your angle with the grinder off. great video!

Good tutorial.

Thank you sir for sharing this knowledge. Respect super like and subscribed. I just got a lathe and all my research here shows me I need to know how to sharpen my tools. I am so thankful I came across your video as I am on a budget. I do want to ask what base that is to adjust for the right angle of grinding and the best all around and correct wheel for grinding them.

That is a top notch grinder/sharpener - cannot go wrong with it.

Very good!!

Show......muito obrigado pela demonstração e as dicas.

Thank you! That really helps

very interesting tips - thanks from Brazil

It seems that you’re only using one side of the grinder. When do you use the 80 grit and when do you use the 180 grit.

Muito bom seu vídeo. Parabéns.

Wow, fantastic machine. I'm sure it's out of my price range though. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for helping me and nice

Jolly good show old chap.

Thanks for that brief overview. it is most helpful to this Kiwi

What beautiful gouges. Very professional. However, I have not long since started turning. I have spent all my money on a very simple lathe and gouges. I have nearly half a tonne of Cheryl, Douglas Fir, Holly and Lime sitting outside out side my newly built workshop unprocessed. I didn't appreciate how expensive setting up would be. And I am almost broke, my savings have been destroyed. So I can't afford such a beautiful sharpening station. So it drives me wild when I see a professional giving instruction on such machinery. So can you please make a video on how to make a station with more commonly available tools like a belt sander, bits of wood etc? Not beyond us mere mortals. I have almost 20 Sorby gouges which are mutilated as they were bought second hand. How do you reset gouges like that? They are actually dangerous. I have two broken tool rests which is quite an achievement. I look forward to your reply. Kindest regards James Findlay

Excellent video I cannot afford buying the CBN wheels in Brazil and importing is a costly nightmare. I noticed you are using the vari-grind attachment. Would you please share the setting (notch) used to get those beautiful swept back grind chisel?

Are you using the 80 grit or the 180 grit in this video

very good

Sehr gut vorgezeigt Carter!!! Tiroler Drechsler

i have a 300grit CBN Wheel and I am trying to getting my edge back on my Carter 5/8" bowl gauge with aluminum handle.... I changed the standard grind to a swept back winged at 50 angle Can you give me some suggestion to bring back a better edge....

I used to look down on using a jig, and always sharpened free hand with a nice grinder like the one you have, but now I have a harbor freight grinder and the tool rest is so flimsy, and the wheel is narrow.its really hard to get a good grind these days.a jig will help.

That grinder is impressive. Mine tries to run out of the shed every time I turn it on

If you need a quick reference guide to sharpening each type of lathe tool this is IT! It is also great if you are a turning beginner. The name/use for each tool is noted on screen. I was given a huge box of top quality tools from yesteryear, & I hope I can get my tool edges to look like those in the video.

Your video describes how to resharpen a skew. So are we to assume, like you did that all skews were previously ground at the correct angle?

Great 👍

What speed setting is being used?

What speed is the wheel spinning at? It looks pretty slow.

beautifl job

Hi. what's #number your diamond wheel?

superba bijuterie

I just ordered a 350 grit cbn wheel.

Nice grinder, and only $1,300.00 dollars. Just for reference, I lucked out and picked up a four wheel grinder, on an iron frame, off craigslist for $200.00. I swapped the 240 VAC motor for an industrial sewing machine motor ($200.00) and I can control the speeds to from 0 to 2,500 RPM. Now that I've been using the beast for a few years, I see the whole thing could be built using 2x's or an angle iron frame, some pillow blocks and pulleys for twice the machine at about 1/3 the price. Of course, the two CBN wheels brought the price up nearly four hundred, but they've proven to be a great investment too. All that aside, great video.

Very nice David, but you don't say which grit you are using to sharpen with, or what speed? Leaves us a bit guessing......

So, different tools require different angles ?

I'm headed to Harbor Freight to get me one of these grinders.

ok but what about the sad sap like me whos grinder is the one his work was throwing out

Got one of bowl gouge

Never had any experience, when I got my lathe. Had quite a few moments where I thought I was about to be impaled.

What grind angle do you recommend for your spindle gouges, David?

Good video! Are the stones on your grinder ceramic? Stay healthy my friend.

I'm confused by your statement that correct angle for sharpening the skew is 1 to 1 1/2 times the thickness of the steel tool. How does 1 to 1 1/2 times 3/8 equal an angle?

Good tips to try on my $50 grinder lol.

is their need for going to i much finer grit, thank you so much, a relief angle, the correct term or the primary cutting edge, people call it secondary now, the secondary is cut first and of cource primary relief is cut second so the whole terminology got all twisted around. i like real terminology for this trade

What type of wheel are you using?

Thank you mr. Carter for that info, I've been searching for a sharpening video and I could never find one but I found one!. How does a poor man afford a grinder like that? Is there an easier way for poor man to grind his wood lathe tools without that expensive grinder and jig? Thanks anyway

Should I de-burr all the rounded turning tools after grinding? Thank you

So that is the Wolverine jig?

That's how you done'it training and should be splayed 🖐️🙌 and future customer service works great good that's how you do it yourself not quickly soluble slowly.

That sharpening is worth more than my lathe.

Watis thes steel

Sharpening jig for wood turning

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Buy a Sorby ProEdge Plus for better results and massive time savings. It sharpens bench, framing, carving, and turning chisels, drill bits, plane irons, knives, garden tools, axes, hatchets, machetes, lawn mower blades, and almost anything else you want to put a stellar edge on.

When sharpening the spindle gouge you set the tip of the chisel at 2 inches. BUT, you didn't specify at what distance to set the V-jig from the wheel thus making the 2 inch setting a moot point.

Is there any alternative way to sharpen tools beside that machine , since other viewers don’t have it

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Why no sparks?

I sharpen mine with sandpaper

Did you say 50 degrees

Bowl gouge concave wings...

Need

Wood turning tools work better if the ratio of the bevel to thickness of the tool is 2.5 times the thickness not 1.5. All a 1.5 ratio facilitates is a wheel that is too small.

Awesome, for people who can afford a $2,500 grinder.

Not on the face of a bench grinder unless you wanna ruin your tools and have a fragile concave "hollow grind"... Hollow grinds are fragile and dull quickly... Get a flat stone or use the side of the wheel so you're using a flat surface to sharpen instead of a convex profile

This seems to be a commercial for their product. I thought this would show me how to sharpen my tools. I know, with enough money, many things become easier. How much does it cost to sharpen a chisel?

So it’s hopeless without a jig

Spelling ‘gouge’ isn’t difficult - just spell it as I have, and as you did on the second attempt.

C&S do not provide Tormek sharpening instructions for their products. It would take a day for them to develop these instructions. At the prices they charge, perhaps someone over there could get off the chair and get this project done.

I can just imagine how expensive that grinding machine is...

Can NOT even BUY one !! Used car in my book !!😔

Oh crap! That’s right, I don’t own a $1,000.00 grinder with $400.00 diamond grinding wheels. Don’t really learn much here....blah blah blah

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Crap