However the fingernail shape allows greater flexibility.
Bowl gouge grinds.
Longer winged bowl gouges like the irish and ellsworth grinds have the added advantage of being able to make scraping and shear scraping cuts.
What is a fingernail bowl gouge.
A third grind is hard to achieve.
This extra step assures the sharpest cutting edge possible.
It can be very easy to have a gouge profile shape start to wander away after just a few sharpenings.
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What is a 40 40 bowl gouge grind.
The final resulting bowl gouge sharpening grinds can vary dramatically if the system is misconfigured.
Tip extension angle and distance.
To accomplish this the author uses a vector grind fixture added to his wolverine jig.
The flutes are a parabolic u shaped with tapered sides not a deep v.
A 40 40 bowl gouge grind refers to the angles incorporated in the specific sharpening process for this gouge.
A fingernail bowl gouge has 50 to 55 degrees of bevel angle with swept back side wing.
Fingernail is a grind and bowl gouge is the tool.
Short winged bowl gouge grinds like the traditional fingernail and the 40 40 grind are good general use gouges.
The word fingernail refers to the grind of the bowl gouge.
Spindle gouges are used for detailing in spindle turning projects.
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As i mentioned above there are three variables we need to deal with when sharpening at the grinder using the oneway vari grind system.
Bowl gouges are mainly used for making a wood bowl.
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People also call it ellsworth.
Thus the woodturner better perform the pull cuts.
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In the past i have resisted teaching secondary grinds in my basic turning classes for logical reasons.
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The 40 40 grind bowl gouge is a great hand sharpened gouge technique.
Here s a link to an article all about the 40 40 grind gouge.
Remember the advantage of the vari grind jig is consistency.
Pay close attention when sharpening by hand.
U shaped gouges are great for either finger nail or bottom feeder grinds.
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The bowl gouge bevel angle of the 40 40 grind is 40 degrees as are the side wing edges.
These gouges also perform well with punky loose grained woods like spalted pecan.
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A third bevel adds even more deep cutting control.
