Sharpening chisels and plane irons
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I paid a total of £124 at Amazon.com including delivery and tax for the same 3 200×75 stones, although the superfine is an EZ-lap (which was pennies cheaper than the Dmt). Delivery was about 10 days on each stone. Not sure what you’d do if you had to return an item though.
I really like Paul’s approach to sharpening. I hear wonderful things about it from folks. Unfortunately, my results are mixed at best. I’ve watched all the videos and I mimic Paul’s process as closely as possible. I feel that I’m probably not maintaining a consistent angle so I’m effectively rounding over the edge as I move from 30 – 45 degrees (at least that is my best guess).
Can anyone offer some suggestions oh how they learned to free-hand the proper angle consistently? I’m really excited to perfect this so I can sharpen quickly but at this point I feel I’ve reached the limit of what I can learn though internet video mimicry.
I’d love to know what steps folks progress through in Paul’s classes to learn the proper angles and angle consistency.
Hi Nathan, the way I managed to get it was by initially performing the action slower than what Paul does it, I found after a while I sort of developed the muscle memory to the point now where I don’t even think about it and the chisel/plane iron is sharpened very quickly..