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Sorry for not keeping up, busy with work, no pics either. Mrs. Ax and I finally were able to take long deserve holiday for the two of us, nice to get away for a brief time. I have played a little more with the Wolverine and getting better results. Stig , my bad on the convex grind . I think...

Stig, I have it set up right with with the 3/4 in. spacer board under the grinder. I don't know if I am using the right words for the convex grind . I am only going by what I have seen or read on the internet. The skew I am talking about was used, came to me with the the first lathe I bought...

Jay , I guess my concern is I don't want to ruin my good tools especially my new tools going through a trial and error process . I am probaly being over paranoid thinking I am going to grind too much away or not getting the proper angles. I was glad to see Stig's comment about grinding away...

Anyone using the One- Way Wolverine sharpening jigs with a slow speed grinder to sharpen your lathe tools. If so , how do you like it?? I recently splurged and bought this system along with a Rikon slow speed grinder and a few pricey long handled tools. I like the system but there is a learning...

I agree 100%

Stig's recent reply got me motivated as I was close to finishing my three bowl project.:lol::lol: Here are the pic's. Each bowl has it's own story so I'll try not to drag this out. I downloaded the pic's first so I hope I get the order right for each bowl. At times I thought I was making small...

Thanks Stig, I like your approach to finishing a bowl. Finding some of the things you have mentioned is a little hard to find. Our local stores don't exactly cater to wood turners. They have some things but not a big selection either. The chuck is the Stong Hold model. I have only used it once...

The computer is working good today and have a little time on my hands so I thought I would get caught up on this thread. Thanks for the recent replies they have been helpful. I have made three bowls since the my last post , two using just face plates and the third with my new to me chuck after...

I can say for sure I am on the eve of making my first bowl from some apple wood with my new to me 1442 Jet inboard ,outboard wood lathe. I finally found some time for myself to play with the lathe. I roughed out some blanks awhile back and just about killed my band saw finishing them so I...

DANG I didn't know we had a turning thread here. I had no clue so many of you were into turning. Good thing I had some time to kill and found it.You guys are doing some nice and I mean very nice work turning those bowls. I am envious. Hope you don't mind me chiming in. I have had a lathe for...