I use the Oneway Vari Grind setup to sharpen my bowl gouges. Most of my gouges are ground to either an Ellsworth swept back profile using the Ellsworth jig, or a 40/40 profile using Ron Browns jig. My question is what to do when the gouge gets too short to work in the jigs? (when you start to run out of flute). Do most of you discard the gouge at that point, or continue using it but sharpen freehand on a platform? I'm trying to get a little more mileage out of my gouges before having to buy new ones.
Thanks for any thoughts the group has.