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MaryMay@marymay
453 Posts
Quote from MaryMay on October 24, 2017, 8:06 pm
Hi Eric, and welcome!
I generally sharpen at 90 degree angle as mentioned by Matthew. However, there are those exceptions where you don't want the corners to dig and the corners will be "softened" or rounded. Most often, if you buy used gouges that have rounded corners, they were rotated too aggressively on the stone by mistake. Carving beads is a great example of when these corners could be rounded.
If a fishtail gouge is rounded at the corners, that usually means it was rounded by mistake. The whole benefit of fishtails is to have a sharp corner to get into awkward areas, and the rounding of the corners defeats that purpose.
From #2 to #10, which is usually a half circle, these should make a perfect circle, eventually. If they do not, the rotation along the stone is incorrect.
Hope that answers your questions, and happy carving!
Hi Eric, and welcome!
I generally sharpen at 90 degree angle as mentioned by Matthew. However, there are those exceptions where you don't want the corners to dig and the corners will be "softened" or rounded. Most often, if you buy used gouges that have rounded corners, they were rotated too aggressively on the stone by mistake. Carving beads is a great example of when these corners could be rounded.
If a fishtail gouge is rounded at the corners, that usually means it was rounded by mistake. The whole benefit of fishtails is to have a sharp corner to get into awkward areas, and the rounding of the corners defeats that purpose.
From #2 to #10, which is usually a half circle, these should make a perfect circle, eventually. If they do not, the rotation along the stone is incorrect.
Hope that answers your questions, and happy carving!
Eric Delage@gasperic
12 PostsTopic Author
Quote from Eric Delage on October 24, 2017, 9:27 pm
Well, well, well, that's lots of information to assimilate, and I love that discover new horizons...
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization, to boldly go where no one has gone before…
Thanks Matthew and Mary
Well, well, well, that's lots of information to assimilate, and I love that discover new horizons...
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization, to boldly go where no one has gone before…
Thanks Matthew and Mary
Matthew Mizner@mattm
242 Posts
Quote from Matthew Mizner on October 25, 2017, 12:54 pm
Live long and prosper...
Live long and prosper...
MaryMay@marymay
453 Posts
Quote from MaryMay on October 25, 2017, 9:20 pm
Don't tell me... you both dress up and hang out at Star Trek conventions. Time to get back in the workshop...
Don't tell me... you both dress up and hang out at Star Trek conventions. Time to get back in the workshop...
Eric Delage@gasperic
12 PostsTopic Author
Quote from Eric Delage on October 25, 2017, 9:35 pm
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OK ! Now it's "time to make donuts..." (Like an expression who said my English wife...) by the way Mary, it could be a good slogan for your school ?
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OK ! Now it's "time to make donuts..." (Like an expression who said my English wife...) by the way Mary, it could be a good slogan for your school ?
