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How not to make a Japanese style toolbox
vtsteam:
I really enjoyed that repair sequence! :thumbup: :clap:
RossJarvis:
--- Quote from: RotarySMP on October 17, 2013, 10:31:02 AM ---Have you tried the Scary Sharp (TM) method using sandpaper? I gave it a try on my plane iron the other day and cerainly won't bother pissing around with trying to keep a whetsone falt anymore.
http://www3.telus.net/BrentBeach/Sharpen/HPIM0555.jpg I got a way better edge than I'd ever acheive with the whetstone.
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Cheers Rotary SMP :thumbup:
I tried that before getting the whetstones. I went to some ridiculously fine 3M lapping film after the 2000 wet n' dry and had the opposite experience to you. It was all fixed on a piece of 8 or 10mm glass. It was a lot of faffing and difficult to store and eventually I broke it Maybe if I had more space and a granite surface it would have been easier. I've found the stones preferable myself and I don't mind flattening them. Maybe I just find a mindless task therapeutic :med:. I can quite happily spend as much time sharpening tools as using them!
Thanks for the comments everyone else :wave:
RotarySMP:
Know what you mean. There is a lot of satisfaction in doing some of these things. I guees I got lucky with the sand paper thing. I don't even bother sticking it down with water, so it just gets stored as a pile of loose papers.
RossJarvis:
--- Quote from: RotarySMP on November 08, 2013, 04:14:31 PM ---Know what you mean. There is a lot of satisfaction in doing some of these things. I guees I got lucky with the sand paper thing. I don't even bother sticking it down with water, so it just gets stored as a pile of loose papers.
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I think I'm still trying to find a satisfactory sharpening method, the whetstones are good and quick, but the larger grits wear very rapidly, The paper method doesn't "hollow out", but can use a lot of paper, which costs a lot in the UK. I'm now starting to question the steel of most of my tools. I've had to resharpen my plane irons twice in less than a couple of hours in oak. I've got a couple of Japanese chisels on order to see if they hold an edge better in high carbon steel over the alloy steel which most of my cutting tools are made of.
RotarySMP:
My only plane is cheap indian copy of a Stanley. The blade has been sharpened a few time by me by hand on a wavy whetstone, and twice with sand paper to straighten it back up. I am making my wife a computor desk out of 72 strips eucalyptus laminated together, and managed to do top and bottom with only a single touch up of the blade.
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