Resurfacing badly dinged up gouges

[Joe Beaulieu]

Hey Folks,

I am trying to put new faces on some used gouges I acquired. I am quite familiar with how to do this on bench chisels and plane blades, but I have no real idea how to go about it on a curved gouge. I do have some DMT hones for keeping them sharp, but they are not abrasive enough to use to reshape a bevel or inside face. I need to do some major reworking - how is it done in the carving tool world?

Thanks in advance - much appreciated.

Joe

[mike holden]

Rotary tool such as a dremel or foredom; or a belt sander or planisher.
If you are looking for jigs to maintain a shape, don't know of any that work very well. There may be some, but *I* don't know of any.
There is a DVD with Chris Pye that goes into shaping and sharpening a carving gouge and it is all by hand.
Mike

[Tom McMahon]

In most cases carving gouges are sharpened with both an outside and an inside bevel so pits and scratches make no difference on the body of the gouge. The inside bevel allows you to use the gouge upside down more efficiently. Wet or dry on a dowel lets you work the inside bevel.