Tormek gouge jig on grinder

Re: Tormek gouge jig on grinder

Lyn J. Mangiameli

>I've done this very thing and it works great. It was very easy to do with the Kelton sharpening base and arm because the arm has a welded eye on the end that takes a 1 inch verticle post (easily obtained by cutting off a section of drill rod).

In general, all you need is to use a section of angle iron attached to project horizontally out from your existing arm (mine is bolted to a verticle rod on the Kelton, but you could bolt/weld directly to the Wolverine arm if needed). Attach a Tormek Horizotal base to the angle iron. Fit your exiting or a second Univeral Support Bar in the Horizontal Base. The dry grinder arm now adjusts in and out for length, and the Univeral support bar can now be adusted for height, and serves its usual function as a tool jig carraige.

This really works great and lets me use all the Tormek jigs on a dry grinder, then move the still jigged tool to the Tormek for final finsihing if I think this is called for.

Email me and I'll bounce back to you a photo if you want one.

Re: Tormek gouge jig on grinder

Richard Allen

>The Sorby fingernail jig is the same as the Tormeck. If you look at the sorby you can see that it is a cilinder with a hole and an axis going through. This is easy enough to make and will let you duplicate the Tormeck action.