Sharpening Woodturning Tools With a Grinder

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"An essential piece of equipment in sharpening your turning tools is going to be a bench grinder. This is a two speed grinder. It operates at a slow speed and a high speed, but I almost exclusively will operate this bench grinder at the lower speed which is about seventeen hundred fifty rpms. It has two wheels and they're eight inch wheels. This is a sixty grit wheel and I use this wheel if I have to do any reshaping of my tools, and this is an eighty grit wheel and this is a wheel that I will use when I need to just put a fresh edge, or fresh cutting edge, on my tool. It comes with some after market pieces of equipment that are underneath, mounted underneath the wheels, and they're made, they're called the wolverine jigs. The wolverine jig are these two sections that are mounted right beneath the two grinding wheels, and on one side we have a flat tool rest that slides in and out, and under this one a V-arm that slides in and out."