Like many of you...I have 3/8", 1/2", and a 5/8" bowl gouges. What is your preference for using long wing grinds...a specific diameter or do grind long wings on all your grinds? thanks...j
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Long wing grinds...
- Thread starter John Grace
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Wings on all. Some with Irish grind, some with Hannes grind.
I like mine 3/4 inch from tip to end of the wing
1/2” bg’s are my experimenters - try new grinds with them, as I find no real other use for them. I can do anything with a 5/8” that a 1/2” will do. 2x 5/8” (45* for initial roughing, 60* to the finish) and a 3/8” have a Hannes hatmaker grind.
The 45* rougher is one of Lyle’s signature Thompson 5/8” wide V’s, the V10 material holds up best getting through bark and inclusions during initial roughing, and the wide V hogs material without clogging.
The 45* rougher is one of Lyle’s signature Thompson 5/8” wide V’s, the V10 material holds up best getting through bark and inclusions during initial roughing, and the wide V hogs material without clogging.
That's what I've always done, with just a bit of a convex curve on the edges. A pretty generic, time-tested, no-name shape.
I use Hannes' Vector Grind Fixture and always make the wing as long as it can be made.
Well, I never use a swept back grind gouge any more. After a 3 day work shop with Stuart and Allan Batty, and discovering the 40/40 gouge and BOB tools, that kind of eliminated the need for them. The swept back grind is a "jack of all trades", but it is also a master of none, and I think the specialized tools work better, at least for me. This is why I developed my old robo rest, mostly because what was available at that time wasn't very good. I use dedicated shear scrapers, spear point for the outside, and a round nose or ) nose for the inside. I do all of my heavy roughing cuts with the Big Ugly tool.
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