Not sure where to post this on B&B, but I know some of the guys who could likely best answer it will look in the honing forum.
I am doing some Hobby-level lathe work this weekend. My father-in-law’s set up. He is mainly into carbide turning tools, but there are actually a variety of more traditional tools as well, bowl gouges, etc. I had been using a Tormek machine to sharpen the gouges and it works well for that due to the alignment tools. However the alignment tool doesn’t work as well with the skew chisel. Then I remembered that I had bought a Dan’s knife sharpening tool (one of those things with 4 sides, different grit on each side). So this particular one has a SiC side, a soft Ark side, a hard Ark side and a black Ark side. I skipped the SiC (the skew chisel wasn’t that dull) and just did the soft Ark and hard Ark. Question: For wood-working tools in general and lathe tools in particular, what level of refinement makes sense? I am thinking a black Ark is overkill, maybe even counter-productive (as for kitchen knives) but no idea.
Thanks in advance for your responses, and my apologies if I posted in the wrong area.
I am doing some Hobby-level lathe work this weekend. My father-in-law’s set up. He is mainly into carbide turning tools, but there are actually a variety of more traditional tools as well, bowl gouges, etc. I had been using a Tormek machine to sharpen the gouges and it works well for that due to the alignment tools. However the alignment tool doesn’t work as well with the skew chisel. Then I remembered that I had bought a Dan’s knife sharpening tool (one of those things with 4 sides, different grit on each side). So this particular one has a SiC side, a soft Ark side, a hard Ark side and a black Ark side. I skipped the SiC (the skew chisel wasn’t that dull) and just did the soft Ark and hard Ark. Question: For wood-working tools in general and lathe tools in particular, what level of refinement makes sense? I am thinking a black Ark is overkill, maybe even counter-productive (as for kitchen knives) but no idea.
Thanks in advance for your responses, and my apologies if I posted in the wrong area.