Hi Guys
I have not sharpened my 10 inch Planer Blades for ages, there is always something more important. Finally when the piece of timber I was thicknessing turned out to be convex, it became a necessity. On removal it was quite obvious why my planed timber was unacceptable, the blades were well bowed. It is rarely that I use the full 10" width of the table, and I know that I should use different parts of the table to obtain even blade wear, I am inexplicably drawn to feed timber to the center of the table.
Last time I ground the blades on a bench grinder by hand, unfortunately the diameter of the motor body was larger than the diameter of the abrasive wheels, so could not grind the blades in a continuous pass. This resulted in an an excessive amount of time expended to complete the job.
I recently acquired an additional bench grinder having a motor body smaller than the wheels, and decided to design a little sliding jig for the blades. When I am designing a new project, after scribbling a few sketches, I always make a prototype in wood, to avoid unforeseen problems before working in metal.
