Pictures of sharpening stone boxes
Angelo in Cornwall, NY
>Here is the larger box, with some BLO. To make each of them I resawed the piece of wood, planed the faces, then layed the stone on top of the thicker piece. Scored the outline using a utility knife, and bored a series of holes at each end using a brace and forstner type bit. (Anyone know where to get more of these? I only have 1/2?) Then I excavated most of the material with gouges, using them kind of like scrub planes. I then cleaned up the bottoms with a 71 (hence the earlier post) and squared up the sides with some chisels. Using the bottom as a reference, I repeated the process on the top. Put the stone in, clamped the whole thing in the vise, crosscut to length, and evened up the sides with a plane. Each one was an easy, 1 night project.
