I'm not very a very experienced woodturner nor sharpener yet but all this talk about CBN wheel got me to bite on a pair.
I had a Tormek that I purchased locally a couple years back and added the Woodturners kit and the jig to use the Tormek tools on my old Craftsman grinder for shaping. Maybe it is mostly associated with lack of experience but seemed to take me forever to sharpen my bowl gouges on the Tormek. So I decided to sell my Tormek and after reading David Delo's and Reed Gray's posts I purchased the new Rikon 80-808 1hp slow speed grinder, the One-Way Wolverine, and a Robo-Rest.
In the end I couldn't be happier. I sharpened a 1/2" bowl gouge with fingernail grind on the 80 grit wheel (the other is 220) and in no time I had a razor sharp edge. Sharper that anything I produced on the Tormek. I had to throw a chunk of wood in the lathe and try it out and the results were shocking. Not only did it cut quicker with nice curlies but also left almost no tear-out compared to before.
Here is my setup:
David will notice I remover both halves of the wheel guard. Originally I was going to leave the inner one on but the Wolverine would have hit it. I recall David saying he needed 7/8" shim under the Wolvering clamps but I only need 1/2". The Robo-Rest aided in setting things up. I also ran into issues of the cast feet on the base being far from level. One was short by about 0.050" so I just shimmed it and checked for level using my digital angle gauge and my TS cast top.
Mike