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Sharpening Spokeshave Blade
Bob Hutchins in Central TX
>Not being very adept at sharpening, I bought the Lee Valley gauge and roller gizmo to use with scary sharp. They work very well for me for plane irons and chisels, but the spokeshave blade is too small to use with this combination. I went thru the grits by hand but the bevel angles are pretty sloppy.
Can anyone suggest how I can do this the right way? I doubt I'll ever be good enough to sharpen freehand.
TIA,
BobH
Re: Sharpening Spokeshave Blade
paul womack
>On Lee Valleys instructions for their spokeshave (click "instr"), there's a nice description of a gizmo so solve this very question.
They also sell a fancy aluminium extrusion with rare earth magnets version ready made, if you don't want to make your own.
BugBear
This is going to be hard to describe....
Dave (Arlington, VA)
>Hi Bob -
No digital camera, so it'll just have to be words. Also it'll have to be from memory since I don't have it in front of me, and it's been a while since I've used it. With those caveats...
I shaped some narrow stock from hard maple to about 7"x2"x1/4". Then I shaped another piece of narrow stock hard maple to about 2"x2"x1/4". Then I drilled a whole in the center about an inch from the end of the longer piece of stock, and a similar hole in the center of the square piece of stock. Then I took a bolt, a couple of fender washers, and a nut and inserted them through the holes.
I then "sandwiched" the spokeshave blade between the two pieces of maple and tightened the nut. Then I simply inserted the longer piece of stock into my standard Veritas sharpening jig, and treated it as a though it were a plane blade (because the spokeshave blade bevel projects from the end of his apparatus).
....Anyway you get the idea... or maybe you don't ... actually if you don't I wouldn't blame you - it's kinda hard to visualize. So, I HOPE you get the idea, 'cause that's the best I can do for now. Hope this helped some.
Regards -
Dave
Try this *LINK*
Dan Donaldson
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spokeshave blade sharpening
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Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>The add-on adapter at LV is a bit of a PITA to use IMHO. I have had very good results with this guide by Stanley.
Re: Sharpening Spokeshave Blade
WW-02 (Frank Martin)
>I did not get good results with the short blade holder from Veritas. Recently purchased the jointer blade sharpening jig from Veritas. That worked really great for spokeshave blades as well. It is a little pricey at almost $40, but really well made.
Thank you very much, Guys!
Bob Hutchins in Central TX
>Dan, I especially like your solution. Guess I better remember to exhaust the resources here before I go to wasting bandwidth in the future, huh?
Thanks again,
BobH