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I didn’t want to say that sharpening with japanese stones could be better than doing it using diamonds. After watching just a few Paul’s videos it’s not that I don’t think that Paul’s method for sharpening is probably one of the better methods you can use: I’m sure about it. Completely sure, I would say. The thing is that I don’t have actually diamond stones, but I have two new -not used at all- japanese stones that I wouldn’t like to waste, at least without trying to use them first. I have a four diamond sides block, but its quality is less than decent. I’ve tried to use the stroop (loaded with a compound of chromium and aluminium oxide) after this diamond stones and the results haven’t been good enough, and of course the cutting edge wasn’t sharp enough to get a good cut. So I thought that I could try to apply Paul’s method using my japanese stones, may be just because I had already spent the money on them. Of course I didn’t thought at all that I could improve the product of 50 years of woodworking experience. In fact, I had tried to sharpen my chisels and my handplane irons using the method of the primary and secondary bevels and the result didn’t please me too much. I expected more, more cutting smoothness, and the edges -at least in my experience- don’t last too much. That was the reason for my post here.
Since I’m knowing little by little Paul’s work and following his advices (a knifewall combined with chisel action before sawing, for example), I’m inclined to think that I will finally buy diamond stones to do a copy&paste of Paul’s technique, but there’s nothing bad on trying before with the tools I actually have 🙂 .
By the way, I didn’t know the use of a leather stroop with polishing compound. It’s just one of the great little things that I’m discovering watching Paul’s videos.
There’s nothing at all I can forgive. I have a lot of things to learn. Thank you everybody.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Julio T..
- This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Julio T..