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looking for adze care and usage advice

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looking for adze care and usage advice

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looking for adze care and usage advice

Andy in Raleigh


>I just got a small adze for Fater's Day. It's the Stubai small sculptor's adze, which has a small hatchet blade on one side of the head and a small adze (profile about like a medium sweep gouge) blade on the other. It needed honing and I honed it using my new SlipStrop and a few test swings yielded some chips. I basically treated the hatchet part like a big double bevel chisel and the adze like a gouge. Anyway, I wondered if someone with experince could chime in and tell me if there are any differences in edge preparation for best results. Suggestions about techniques would also be welcome. I will be using it to hollow out carved string instruments and bowls.

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Greg B�tit, Crown Point NY


>Your approach sound reasonable to me. An adze is like a large in-cannel gouge.

I have a series of three tapered round slips (sold for sharpening turning gouges) that I use to start, and a couple natural stones that have a round edge that I use to finish.

I also have a piece of wood that I turned to the appropriate diameter (& sawed a through slit partially down the length)that I use with sand paper. The cylinder is something smaller than the radius of the adze & works really well for "scary" sharpening my gutter adzes.

Greg

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Greg B�tit, Crown Point NY


>This idea isn't pertinent if you are clamping the workpiece on the top of your bench. But consider using a vise- you might want to try making a scrap wood "L" to clamp in your vise together with the work piece. This protects your adze from hacking the vise, and protects the vise from getting hacked (I use a wooden leg vise).

A piece of leather glued to the surface of the "L" that clamps against the workpiece is also a good idea.

Greg

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