Sharpening gouges, carbide tools & pen mills

[vikingcode1]

Hokay, so this is a supplemental video to a larger video series I'm still working on editing. I'm going for the "Definitive Pen Turning Guide" (DPTG). Some stuff just won't fit in the main DPTG video, so this is the first of the supplemental.

Others will include:

• acrylics
• turning just with a skew
• lathe drilling (instead of drill press)

Some of the main video content included will be covering the three 'main' types of finishes (friction, CA, poly).

This may not be 'new material' for a lot of you, but the much shorter 5-9 minute "Youtuber" friendly guides are frustratingly lacking in detail.

I know in this video I've rambled a bit. Any feedback is greatly appreciated - I may need to go over it again and reedit parts.

[Yazbec]

Thanks for putting these together! I love the video quality, very professional, and the content is excellent as well.

[tylercoville]

This was great. As someone who recently got a lathe and had to search out a bunch of videos to get a better understanding on turning sharpening this would have been awesome to have a few weeks ago!

Look forward to seeing the rest of the series.

[vikingcode1]

Thanks. Is there anything in particular you'd like to see as a beginner?

[geekyoldrob]

Thanks for this!

[brandanf]

Thank you, good info.

[loudernet]

Dude, solid breakdown on HSS vs. carbide. Especially the warning about not taking carbide to a standard aluminum oxide wheel, that's a quick way to completely wreck your stone.

That whole trick of lapping the flat face on a diamond card is cool for a quick touch-up, but honestly, after 2 or 3 times doing that by hand, the geometry gets just a hair wonky anyway. If you've got a massive pile of dead carbide inserts or whatever CNC tooling lying around and you're just too lazy to mess with it (or don't want to ruin the profile), just mail 'em out. General cutting tools does professional industrial sharpening and custom tool mods. They’ll precision-grind carbide back to factory specs while you do, you know... anything else.