Reply To: Secondary Bevel
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On my finest irons I use a secondary bevel with a 16k water stone with a sharpening guide and take the burr of with the Charlesworth method. No honing. I use a sharpening fixture because the stone is very soft and I have gouged it freehand too much.
It gives the sharpest edge I can do. I added a water stone when I bought an A2 steel iron. My Arkansas takes forever to get that where I want it.
I don’t bother with this for every plane of chisel, and not with any narrow blades. The standard method works fine for most use, and less messy. Water stones are a bit of a production to go through.
I don’t wait for the finest stone to wear the edge down 1/2 way. Instead I remove metal each time I sharpen with my 1k diamond plate so the expensive water stone doesn’t do more work than need be. I don’t use any intermediate grits.
There a thousand ways to sharpen. If your method works, great.
- This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Larry Geib.