I've been turning less than two years and like everyone else am learning the finer points of sharpening through trial and error, experimentation and dumb luck. I'm also a precision junkie and sharpening with a jig appeals to my perfectionist side.
At the end of last year I switched from using the PSI Wolverine imitator (documented elsewhere in the forum) to using the real McCoy. They both work but the Oneway system is better designed in some crucial respects. Recently I added the wheel dresser attachment to my Wolverine outfit.
I've been dressing my grinding wheels with one of those gizmos that looks like an old safety razor (not that I'm old enough to remember those gillettes and schicks). I thought I was doing a decent job with 'em too. Unh uh. I've just discovered when dressing a grinding wheel that there's smooth and then there's Really smoooth and really flat! That's what the Oneway dresser does for me.
I use two Aluminum Oxide Norton wheels on my 8" grinder, a 120 and an 80 grit. Before, even after very carefully leveling the wheels (or so I thought), I'd still experience some minor tool bounce... and I use a wheel balancer too (Oneway must love me)! And the fine wheel would develop gouge trenches fairly quickly after just a few sharpenings.
I've only used the Wolverine dresser once on each wheel since I got the thing. I've sharpened every turning tool I own at least once, the gouges and scrapers a few times each, and still the wheels are staying flat and true. No gouge trenches developing, no "bounce" and I'm getting a beautiful flat face on my extra heavy duty Sorby scrapers. I'm not sharpening with a lighter touch, just doing things as I've learned to do, so I have to attribute this to the Oneway wheel dresser.
This gizmo is the bees knees. Just wanted to share that with everyone.
At the end of last year I switched from using the PSI Wolverine imitator (documented elsewhere in the forum) to using the real McCoy. They both work but the Oneway system is better designed in some crucial respects. Recently I added the wheel dresser attachment to my Wolverine outfit.
I've been dressing my grinding wheels with one of those gizmos that looks like an old safety razor (not that I'm old enough to remember those gillettes and schicks). I thought I was doing a decent job with 'em too. Unh uh. I've just discovered when dressing a grinding wheel that there's smooth and then there's Really smoooth and really flat! That's what the Oneway dresser does for me.
I use two Aluminum Oxide Norton wheels on my 8" grinder, a 120 and an 80 grit. Before, even after very carefully leveling the wheels (or so I thought), I'd still experience some minor tool bounce... and I use a wheel balancer too (Oneway must love me)! And the fine wheel would develop gouge trenches fairly quickly after just a few sharpenings.
I've only used the Wolverine dresser once on each wheel since I got the thing. I've sharpened every turning tool I own at least once, the gouges and scrapers a few times each, and still the wheels are staying flat and true. No gouge trenches developing, no "bounce" and I'm getting a beautiful flat face on my extra heavy duty Sorby scrapers. I'm not sharpening with a lighter touch, just doing things as I've learned to do, so I have to attribute this to the Oneway wheel dresser.
This gizmo is the bees knees. Just wanted to share that with everyone.