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16 March 2013 at 10:26 pm #9443
Give yourself a little optical help. By a scriber like a drop-action pencil with a really slim point of tungsten. Mark the backside of the chisel rectangular half a millimeter behind the edge. Now you can easyly see if you go out of square and can correct this with a little twist of the hand which holds the handle. After a while you don’t need this help anymore because you get a feeling for holding the chisel the rigth way if you sharpen it.
13 February 2013 at 9:54 pm #7902The first question is what will you sharpen? Only the blades of chisels and planes? How often have your blades to be sharpen?
If you only will sharpening chisels and planes and not your knifes or your straight razors and you only sharpen them once a week I think scary sharp is good for you. If you will sharpen your knifes too or have to sharpen more times a week it will be better to buy diamond or waterstones. The most used stone will be the 1.000 for building the edge, so spend the money to get a good one. Shapton glasstone or Naniwa Chosera are realy good stones which don’t need to soak much water, just spritz and go. The same is for DMTs too. It’s your decision. Next step is a 6.000 to 8.000. For this you can buy blue belgian waterstone or arkansas. I think the belgian will work faster but needs to be flaten from time to time. Then strope like Mr. Sellers shows in his video. With this setup you can work for years and not only your woodworking blades. But be warned: sharpening could become addictive 😉
Sorry for my lousy english.
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