Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Ah, something becomes clear.
Chuck Nickerson
In sharpening profiled irons, your first step is docking the cutting edge at 90*, and I do this.
I recall two reasons being given: it protects the edge from heat during grinding, and it gives the
30* honing work a plave to happen.
There's also a third reason: by actively removing the leading part of the blade, it eliminates the
wear bevel on the face of the blade.
I guess my normal plane and chisel blades just became even more a comsumable item.
initial preparation
Larry Williams
One re-establishes the location of the cutting edge for initial preparation and fitting or when the cutting edge becomes badly damaged. Other than that, grinding is pretty much limited to reducing the size of the honed portion of the bevel for ease of sharpening.
Re: Veritas Honing Guide
David Weaver
Pam, sometimes after I typed a long bit on a forum and then see something like "nobody should use anything but LN chisels" or "you can't restore old tools, it's false economy"...
... I wonder why I care, too, or even if I do. And sometimes the answer is, when I think about it,... I don't.
Re: Veritas Honing Guide
Pam Niedermayer
Yes, so then you leave the forae for a week or two until the caring part comes to the fore again. Not caring about what others do, so much, more caring for woodworking for yourself, more caring how Stu's SP 1200k testing works out.
Pam
Re: Veritas Honing Guide
David Weaver
I'm not following on the stu thing. Care to add some fidelity to that?
Re: it's very frustrating for us
Charles
Amen. Cool water sprayer 'ole Chris is using though. Gotta give that to him.
No, think about it.
Not inclined to play zero payoff guessing games
Re: Not inclined to play...
Pam Niedermayer
Hmmm, don't think I've ever written a zero payoff message.
Pam