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I would agree with learning to sharpen freehand, but if you want to get acceptable sharpening while you are learning with advice from the forum, get yourself a sharpening jig. If I had waited until I could sharpen freehand then I would have given up on turning a long time ago, as it is I can sharpen my skews, parting tools and roughing gouge by hand, but the fingernail and bowl gouges are still not there.

You would be surprised at the number of so-called professionals who advise hand sharpening and yet they still have jigs, I know this from visiting their workshops

Peter

<blockquote data-quote="Buckeye" data-source="post: 85143" data-attributes="member: 294">I would agree with learning to sharpen freehand, but if you want to get acceptable sharpening while you are learning with advice from the forum, get yourself a sharpening jig. If I had waited until I could sharpen freehand then I would have given up on turning a long time ago, as it is I can sharpen my skews, parting tools and roughing gouge by hand, but the fingernail and bowl gouges are still not there.You would be surprised at the number of so-called professionals who advise hand sharpening and yet they still have jigs, I know this from visiting their workshops<img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/funny.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":funny:" title="Funny&nbsp; &nbsp; :funny:" data-shortname=":funny:" /><img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/funny.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":funny:" title="Funny&nbsp; &nbsp; :funny:" data-shortname=":funny:" /><img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/funny.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":funny:" title="Funny&nbsp; &nbsp; :funny:" data-shortname=":funny:" />Peter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckeye, post: 85143, member: 294"] I would agree with learning to sharpen freehand, but if you want to get acceptable sharpening while you are learning with advice from the forum, get yourself a sharpening jig. If I had waited until I could sharpen freehand then I would have given up on turning a long time ago, as it is I can sharpen my skews, parting tools and roughing gouge by hand, but the fingernail and bowl gouges are still not there. You would be surprised at the number of so-called professionals who advise hand sharpening and yet they still have jigs, I know this from visiting their workshops:funny::funny::funny: Peter [/QUOTE]

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