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My wife will be thrilled when I use a piece of the couch.

Paul, I have watched all of your videos and enjoyed each one. So I was going to post a comment and looked at several responses to you and your abilities. I don't know what makes people troll youtube to post nasty comments. But please understand almost everyone that watches your videos appreciate them. It's great to watch a craftsman share his knowledge. Thanks, Morgan

@banjowoodsman7675

7 жыл бұрын

4637bigred Amen

@icespeckledhens

6 жыл бұрын

It's beyond me too. I guess people with few skills and little respect for themselves, very sad. ,

@patdaddymusic

3 жыл бұрын

James .Pritchard “hurt people” want to hurt people🙄

Sir, thank you very much for this technique. It is greatly appreciated.

Paul is my go to guy for things like this. I totally trust him and thank him for sharing his 50+ years of experience. He got me in the game.

@738polarbear

6 жыл бұрын

Me too .He's a mine of information.

I dont know why, this video feels right, the teaching, the speaking, just right.

It's always a treat to wake up to a new Paul sellers vid. Thanks!

Paul. Very well done. I always learn something new watching these video's.

i love this video. All of your videos actually Paul. They are just a huge inspiration and i just consider you to be just the overall general woodworking "authority" - and the amount of knowledge you've shared throughout all your videos is just outstanding. Just made my own 3 legged stool you showed in your last project series on KZread. Can't wait for the next one! Until then - i can easily just watch all your videos on repeat. I look at your shop and become so envious that you've been able to make your living doing this for so long - and now get to share this lifetime of experience with us all here. Cheers Paul - and thanks for everything thus far!

just I was wondering how to sharp my gouge. thank for sharing this. greetings from Peru.

I bought a very old gouge now I can sharpen it properly thanks Paul now a new subscriber

I like your videos, they are calming. It is so satisfying to watch a professional do his work.

Paul, this is wonderful. I have seen standard chisel sharpening many times, but sharpening of gouges was always a complete mystery and never explained to me. This is the first time I have ever seen how this is done. Thank you.

Thank you! What I learned today: My work on the lapping stones is OK; getting the same results. Green polishing compound was a good choice for stropping, despite being considered a 'power-wheel' compound by some. I have been way too dainty using the strop. Bear down with enough force or you are wasting time! The tool should get a bit warm from friction. I didn't run the strop long enough. Five to ten strokes is not even a decent start; 50-80 strokes between inspections is about right. My use of 2500 grit paper on a wood form to break the burr is not a bad thing, but I could do better with slip-stones/leather pad. Again, thank you for this, I am building a collection of Pfeil gouges for violin carving and I want them at their best!

Hi from Belgium (french speaking) It's such a pleasure to see such an artist at work. Thanks for this show!

Perfect timing for this video, need to sharpen up some of my gouges!

Great video- no nonsense, no wasted time spent watching minutes of sharpening. Just the essentials- and lots of information and techniques. Thank you.

*Thanks Paul for this method, I have two German-made gouges that need sharpening (now I know what to do)*

Been using my main gouge a great deal lately and needed a sharpening. Was intimidated for fear of messing up the edge and bevel. Was going to write and ask for your advice and here it is before I wrote. Superb and simple; can't wait to attempt the first method...probably get a cheap chisel and practice the figure eight before trying on my Pfeil. VERY grateful for this lesson!

My Grandfather and my great grandfather were both master carpenters,And I have inherited a lot of their tools. If I had had a woodworking teacher like you in the 60 when I was at school , I may have followed in their footsteps. Keep it up I am slowly learning how to use them old tools.

Thank you. This is the clearest instructional video I've seen on the subject, and I've been looking! I do have a leather wheel for stropping and it works well for a beginner like me. Yet I want to be able to sharpen on flat stones as well, so I'm not taken by surprise if I can't have my drill and leather wheel in some situations.

such clear and helpful explanations. Thank you.

Finally, just what i needed to know. Everyone else seems to use all these expensive materials to sharpen tools. Thank you!

thank you for the tutorial. I'm just getting into woodworking but I have an issue with buying the tools and not knowing proper care and maintenance (makes it hard to pull the trigger on good tool purchases). Appreciate the step by step explanations and the alternative options to work with what I have.

I bought a load of gouges a few weeks ago. They're good gouges but they all need sharpening. Thank you for this video.

This has helped me a ton. Thank you Paul👍🙂👍

thankyou - am a beginner and didn't want to ruin my new gouges so these two methods are ideal for me.

Awesome Paul. Needed to learn case of chisels that are now going to be used. Thanks Neal

I recently bought a gouge for $1 at a yard sale and was wondering how to sharpen it and so came across this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this video. You do a really nice job of showing the various methods and I like your down to earth style.

i would enjoy seeing you post a video showing us this workbench and some of its features. why you chose that particular design. what you would change about it. etc.

Thanksa Paul I’ll watch this a few times , the sharpening system I was going to buy would be about £800 which is mad , I thought I was subscribed I was not ! But am now , glad to have you onboard …very inspirational thanks mate ..

Thank you for this great lesson!

Hi there from Portugal, Nice :D Obrigado(Thanks) Master P.Sellers

I am 50 year old,i was only taught the figure of eight way to sharpen any chisel,yet i have only seen you use it today,no one else on youtube uses this method on Camera & i have watched many. I love it & use it a great deal,as practice make the perfect sharpened edge.

Wow, I loved every minute of learning from you. Truly inspiring 🙂 Thank you. Subscribed!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Excellent as always

🤣A piece of a couch.lol🤣 Great video, Paul! I love learning how to do things from you. You make it interesting and easily to do .

Thanks so much sir. yesterday I was wondering how to sharp a gauge.

Nice, thanks for showing us. Take care.

Thank you always enjoy your videos

Hello Paul, thank you for the great instuctions on how to sharpen a gouge. I am making an archtop guitar at this moment and my gouge did not to a nice job, i now know how to improve that. Regards Sander van der Voort from the Netherlands

Thanks for this Paul

Brilliant! Thank! My new go to method.

Thank you mister Sellers !

Thank you so much Paul !

I was fixing to buy a Tormek t8 sharpening system for just $729. Paul just saved me a ton of money.

@miheadhurts

3 жыл бұрын

Get the tormek. You can sharpen loads of different tools on one. I've had one for 15 years and wouldn't be without it.

great help to me , Thank you .

I've been watching a lot of turning videos lately and they all use grinders to do their gouges. Had me wondering how you'd do it by hand. So this video came out at a great time.

@billastell3753

6 жыл бұрын

IMHO I don't think a wood turning gouge needs to be as sharp as a wood carving tool. I do both. With a lathe you have the power of the machine cutting. With hand woodcarving it is man power so a slick blade is essential.

great info thanks so much.

Great video!

well done video....thank you

thank you for showing how to sharpen a gouge.

When I was at school 50 years ago we messed the teachers around terribly. Now I would give my eye teeth to be in those workshops again, learning how to do all these wonderful things.

@tonispiip8054

4 жыл бұрын

Benefits of youth is wasted on the young. lol

@jupitersailing

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonispiip8054 Oh so true!

Thank you for the tutorial Paul! What sharpening stone brands do you use or suggest?

thank you, for the lesson......

Thanks I like your videos.

Man I’d love to have tools like that

thanks for your educating video, BUT i have given up mastering both the rolling and the figur 8 sharpening technics, but i now came up with this diy solution, that works ok for me,,, with the dull gouge, i cut a long flat cut out in plane hardwood,,, then i add some sheppach honing compound pasta, about grid 180, and then move the gouge forth and back, its not perfect, but all edge wide gets sharpened...

thankyou - very useful to know - am a beginner and have a daunting job in front of me.

Paul is a genius .No not a genius BUT he has 1/2 a century of experience and knowledge .Same thing in my book.

I love your videos

thank you

Thank you! I managed to make mine more blunt at first, but this helped me fix my poor little gouge

Excellent video. Would you use the same technique to sharpen an adze with an outside bevel?

Thanks.

Thanks for the vidéo

Hi Paul, thanks for your videos! I've watched many of your videos and have learned a lot from you. I have a question regarding gouges. What is the difference between an inside bevel gouge or an outside bevel gouge? I have an inside bevel gouge, would I be able to use it to carve a spoon as efficiently?

simple, straightforward, though not necessarily easy, I think the stone shapening part takes practice. good content

Excellent video as always. I made a sharpening station like you have. I have been looking for a inexpensive gouge set and wondered if you had any recommendations. Thanks!

@swervituredesigns952

7 жыл бұрын

Pat Moore Good point. I'd like to do my early learning of the figure eight on low-end chisels. Advice, Mr. Sellers?

Figure of eight is a nice trick! Another trick to save time sharpening is to use the flattest sweep of gouge that will get the job done. They get more time consuming as well as more difficult to sharpen the deeper they are; and v-tools are the worst. Take care of the inside of your gouges, too. Keep them well oiled (wipe on, wipe off). The inside is akin to the back of a carpenter’s chisel: too many pits and it always needs a micro backbevel which is added work and means you have to attack the wood at a steeper angle.

I know this video is 5 years old but thank you Paul!

Excellent video. Is that a W. K. & C Peace Eagle Works gouge with the brass ferrule? It is IDENTICAL to one I am trying to sharpen using this video. The inside was slightly beveled and I am trying to reflatten the concave. Tough going with a dowel and sandpaper.

can you do a video on concave spokeshave sharpening?

Paul could I use this method to sharpen my bowl carving adze

That figure of eight method is some kind of sorcery.

Paul do you a video on how to sharpen Pfeil straight D1/2 carving chisel

Pará nada hablo ingles, ése hombre es una eminencia.

Where would I get a piece of leather like you had for stropping the burr off the inside ?

Does anyone know where I could buy a set of stones like Paul uses in this video? I recently got a 2md hand set of vintage gouges which will need some sharpening. Thanks

The strop fury side or smooth side, please? Thanks.

When outside of the shop or lacking charging compound, could you rub the abrasive paste from the stone directly onto the leather strop?

@mikeevans3766

5 жыл бұрын

Diamond stones have no paste. Water stones create paste but the idea is to move to finer abrasives at each step.

Hi Paul, have you done a video on how to sharpen a bent chisel. I have a spoon gouge and I can’t get the bevel right so it’s not sharp. Could you help me please! Kim🇨🇦

I have chisel or gouge with the bevel on inside - not outer circumference like these shown in this video. Why the different bevel locations and how to sharpen these internal bevel types quickly?

Hi! What brand of auto glass cleaner do you use? I've heard Windex is an option, us this true?

Would this same method work with a wood-turning/lathe gouge?

Hi paul i was wondering if you could offer some advise i have just completed my site joinery apprenticeship and had been let go due to covid once complete I have just started s a technician in a local college have a lot of gouges to sharpen but the are the the internal bevels and some are quite damaged due to poor use by the students i was wondering how would you possibly grind the beve the sharpening i would be using dowels with wet and dry paper/slip stone or would this be the best wasy to grind the edge down down .keep the content coming thank you paul

@kimepp2216

3 жыл бұрын

Try his website www.paulsellers.com

Holly shit he knows his stuff big time

Mr Sellers , I've watched many of your vids , and more then once . This is my first time commenting , and right off the top I want to say thanks for your time and help with these informative vids as I progress in bringing my Grandfathers tools back to life . Now I know what this thing is I have A Slip Stone ! What other uses does it have ??? I also have his flat stones , I've been putting water on them too sharpen, maybe they are Oil stones , What is the difference and how do I know ?? Thanks from Canada , Cyril

@Paul.Sellers

6 жыл бұрын

I think the slip stones can be applied to a wide range of different sharpening applications and of course they can be shaped to particular tools like gauges and other cutting edges. Often they are not really very specific and therefore there is no definitive answer.

@cyrilbrun8764

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

شكرا merci👍

A ti sou grato pela bondade de levar conhecimentos aos seus semelhantes.

Hi Paul. How important is it to have 2 bevels instead of 1? Does it make a big difference?

@Paul.Sellers

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Harry. The primary bevel is the ground bevel which simply takes steel out of the way of the main cutting bevel, the secondary bevel is the one that actually cuts. This often melds into the primary bevel so it becomes a continues camber into the cutting edge from the secondary bevel. With gauges they can be ground many different ways and carvers often change their bevels at different stages in a carving so that is no one way fits all.

i hit a screw with the gouge. how do I 'remove the bumb' on the bevel?

I like how you have the stones setup. Although, does it limit the stones to chisels, planes? Getting a knife edge on the centre stone would be a bit difficult i would imagine.

@MegaMetinMetin

7 жыл бұрын

Brett yes tends to be not practical for knifes

@MegaMetinMetin

7 жыл бұрын

Brett but its removable

Hi Paul! How is durable edge after diamonds compare to sandpaper or water stones?

@glbwoodsbum2567

5 жыл бұрын

Durability is the same.

are you from liverpool?

Paul's gouge has such a great finish inside! I recently acquired 4 new gouges where the inside is far from that and I would definitely like to improve that. How can this be done? I've searched google and youtube but to no avail, I would appreciate insider's tips and tricks?!

@ikerstges

6 жыл бұрын

Found good tips on a blog post by Paul from 2011: paulsellers.com/2011/04/restoring-woodworking-gouges-project-2-part-1/

@mikeevans3766

5 жыл бұрын

I recommend fine abrasive paper followed by buffing with a buffing wheel charged with fine buffing compound. Just keep in mind hat this is purely cosmetic and has no effect on the tool operation. Watch the heat buildup. Have fun

@mikeevans3766

5 жыл бұрын

Fine abrasive paper followed by a buffing wheel charged with buffing compound.

@mikeevans3766

5 жыл бұрын

Can I say it one more time?

Wonder what kind of Stones you're using. Again, a great Video, easy to understand. You're a wonderful Teacher :-D

@MegaMetinMetin

7 жыл бұрын

Harald Ibener dmt

@fytotechnistje

7 жыл бұрын

He uses EZE-LAP diamond stones

@TheHibener

7 жыл бұрын

dmt means ?. Sorry, I'm Paul Sellers generation, i'm not too familiar with the abreviations :-)

@bartoszknapik9850

7 жыл бұрын

DMT is brand of the stones, but I think that it was mentioned that those are Eze laps, not DMTs.

@TheHibener

7 жыл бұрын

@Bossyrangs Thank you :-)

could you recommend a cheap set of gouges? like the Aldi chisel in your other video.

@Paul.Sellers

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Ole. I believe Paul has made a blog series on cheap gouges that you can have a look at by accessing the following link. paulsellers.com/2012/09/buying-good-tools-cheap/ We encourage you to also search our FAQ page at PaulSellers.com as I believe you will find a lot of useful information. - Team Paul-

@olekike72

6 жыл бұрын

thank you. but what i mean is 'gouge', not a 'marking gauge'.

Figure of eight looks like it requires more finesse than I could muster 😆 rolling method looks like it'll do!