Plough and Rebate Planes: Tuning Your Instrument
…sharpening the blade, with its now rounded corner, no matter how slight, keeps nudging the plane over stroke on stroke. The more we neglect resharpening the more we end up…
…sharpening the blade, with its now rounded corner, no matter how slight, keeps nudging the plane over stroke on stroke. The more we neglect resharpening the more we end up…
…sharpening several planes at the same time and that indeed puts distance between sharpenings too. Some say that modern steels keep their edge longer. I am sure that that’s the…
…sharpened one of my planes within five minutes of a previous sharpening. Planing woods like oak are not too demanding. Some times you plane an oak board 8″ widen and…
…context of my design technology lessons. We discussed the possibility of sharpening some of the grotty old saws which are available for the use of my pupils. On closer examination,…
…it lengthens the life of the file altogether. It’s not quite so pretty but it works well and saw sharpening goes quickly for several sharpening after that initial gullet treatment….
…with a zig zag of silicone. I want to be able to easily remove the stones f I need to and this works best for bedding the stones but gluing…
…to poor economy. Oilstones, water stones in general last a thousand times longer than abrasive papers and film. Diamond plates rely on the reality that they re the hardest known…
…only one acceptable standard for sharpening and that is to use micro- or secondary-bevel sharpening methods. I hasten to add yet again, in order to counter the imbalanced presentation, that…
…conventional (and expensive) slip stones at all. John then wraps coarse sandpaper onto the profile as shown and then draws the inside of the gouge onto the rounded profile to…
…work with. One thing is very very clear to me. Sharpening has been made complicated all the more by a mass of choices. The issue is what to buy more than…
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