Did anybody else notice the last chisel he stoped was not straight along the edge, it had a curve to it. The chisel should always have its back flattened first, then ground across the cutting edge, before sharpening to get everything true and plum.
I dont know why but so many people ignore or aren't capable of recognizing a very simple use of common sense that would tell a person that using the SMOOTH side of the leather rather than the rough side would yield a finer edge
At 1:55 your test shows a dull chisel, and you'll be bleeding when you get a good edge! Set chisel on fingernail at very shallow angle. Chisel shouldn't slide on fingernail, and if any pressure is applied, a fingernail shaving should appear. Great start and DIY for the project! This is more for touching up an edge that developed a burr/wire edge instead of sharpening. Use this one to touch up without pulling off too much metal! Paper wheels are the king for speed and sharper-than-scalpel fast sharpening (if you hold the angle right, that's the only 'hard part') I'm never going back to stones, Paper wheel gives better results. Unfortunately, I dumped a lot of money on stones and gimmicks.
Ok, I think that should be easily solved by spinning the wheel around so it rotates in the other direction. I may just rebuilt the cart though as it seems to have grown a bit "organically" heh.. ;)
Good point! I'm pretty sure the wheel itself is close to true, but I had trouble with getting the hubs straight through. I may want to re-do them from scratch possibly.
The other wheel is old natural sandstone that I picked up at an estate sale. Pretty old I'd imagine. I'm guessing maybe 120 or 180 grit? Definitely not fine enough for planes blades, chisels and so on, but will get out major nicks out fast and good for everything else like a lawnmowerblade, axe or whatever. Water bath is nice and keeps things cool for sure.
That was a polishing compound. The green one (very high polish for metals). You can get a tube from Harbor Fright, however I noticed theirs was really dry and not very soft to put on the wheel.
For this project, I ordered some strips of leather off of ebay. Later I noticed that in a craft store called Hobby Lobby they sold remnant pieces of leather for a bit less than I paid for my ebay purchase and many included in the bag were long and wide enough to make a nice strop.
Thanks for recounting your build! I enjoyed watching it.
I was surprised to see the wheel turning so slowly. It's kind of awesome.
Heh,, yeah, it is run with an old blower motor, and the small to really big pulley helps slow it down a lot.
Did anybody else notice the last chisel he stoped was not straight along the edge, it had a curve to it. The chisel should always have its back flattened first, then ground across the cutting edge, before sharpening to get everything true and plum.
I dont know why but so many people ignore or aren't capable of recognizing a very simple use of common sense that would tell a person that using the SMOOTH side of the leather rather than the rough side would yield a finer edge
At 1:55 your test shows a dull chisel, and you'll be bleeding when you get a good edge! Set chisel on fingernail at very shallow angle. Chisel shouldn't slide on fingernail, and if any pressure is applied, a fingernail shaving should appear.
Great start and DIY for the project! This is more for touching up an edge that developed a burr/wire edge instead of sharpening. Use this one to touch up without pulling off too much metal! Paper wheels are the king for speed and sharper-than-scalpel fast sharpening (if you hold the angle right, that's the only 'hard part')
I'm never going back to stones, Paper wheel gives better results. Unfortunately, I dumped a lot of money on stones and gimmicks.
Your strop should revolve in the other direction sir that would help a lot and protect you from knife projections as well.
Ok, I think that should be easily solved by spinning the wheel around so it rotates in the other direction. I may just rebuilt the cart though as it seems to have grown a bit "organically" heh.. ;)
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Good idea. have you tried a mdf wheel works great
Not yet. Yeah, this is probably a good idea because you can use alternate polishes/grits... and probably make it smaller too I bet.
That wheel has significant runout. If you fix the runout then you can use jigs to mount and sharpen the chisels instead of going freehand.
Good point! I'm pretty sure the wheel itself is close to true, but I had trouble with getting the hubs straight through. I may want to re-do them from scratch possibly.
Where did you get the other big wheel and what is it made of and the grit size? thanks
The other wheel is old natural sandstone that I picked up at an estate sale. Pretty old I'd imagine. I'm guessing maybe 120 or 180 grit? Definitely not fine enough for planes blades, chisels and so on, but will get out major nicks out fast and good for everything else like a lawnmowerblade, axe or whatever. Water bath is nice and keeps things cool for sure.
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If you use RED compound first, any of the other colours will stick to the RED.
Thanks for the tip!
eine auflage für die hand wäre gut
+Hartmuth Vogler weshalb?
du kannst dann das stemmeisen genauer und sicherer auf die scheibe halten, etwa wie beim schleifen mit vorrichtung
Need!!! Sorry for the missing d above----- Blade edge is soooo wrong. Guess why those edges need to be perfectly flat???
What compound is that?
That was a polishing compound. The green one (very high polish for metals). You can get a tube from Harbor Fright, however I noticed theirs was really dry and not very soft to put on the wheel.
where can you get a leather strop
For this project, I ordered some strips of leather off of ebay. Later I
noticed that in a craft store called Hobby Lobby they sold remnant
pieces of leather for a bit less than I paid for my ebay purchase and
many included in the bag were long and wide enough to make a nice strop.
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Nice but slooow
Most motors can be reversed.
Good point! I hadn't even considered trying that.
Man you nee help ~~!!!!
Eat your heart out Tormek.