NEW QUESTION - Wolverine Sharpening System

Re: NEW QUESTION - Wolverine Sharpening System

David......with CBN wheels on your grinder, you won't need the protective cover......

Re: NEW QUESTION - Wolverine Sharpening System

Is it welded on or just a part of the inner housing? It doesn't look like anything a hacksaw won't fix. 

Re: NEW QUESTION - Wolverine Sharpening System

I was going to give Dave the same two pieces of advise, but you beat me to it. (All right, who hid the smiley faces?)

Re: I DID IT....and now a new question

Willam and Dick -

I did it!  And it definitely gets closer.  See pic below.  But now I have a new question: how do you sharpen shorter chisels like the one shown on a Wolverine System?  It won't reach the grinding wheel with the flat part of the back still registered on the tool rest.  Hopefully someone will have already solved this problem...a long time ago. Thanks!

Re: I DID IT....and now a new question

The short, general, but not detailed answer is to build a sled. It should have a horizontal fence underneath that you can register against and slide along either the top or the bottom edge of the Wolverine table. The body of the sled should be built from two pieces of wood. The lower one to cover and slide over the table, and the upper one shallower, so the handle of the tool isn't lifted off its surface. For really sho9rt blades, you might want to add a fence to rest the blade against, and even a clamp to hold it in place. If it were made of aluminum, like the Veritas versions instead of hardwood, you could make it more compact.

Or …

Grind a bevel on the underside of the Wolverine table. This will get the table up close to the wheel.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: I DID IT....and now a new question

For chisels I use the V arm. It takes a gentle hand and for wide chisels it is a learned skill to keep a straight line on the chisels. But I've been doing that for maybe 20 years. I'll post a picture of an alternative method tomorrow.

What is a Vee arm

Re: What is a Vee arm

Plane blade grinding

Re: What is a Vee arm

Thanks, Dick.  I appreciate the pic.  I can see how'd that work for a 3/4 inch or smaller chisel.

Dave

This would also work for putting a camber on a blade!

Hi Dick...I just posted my last response and then it crossed my mind that the Vee Arm would also be quite handy for putting a camber on a plane blade.

Would you (or anyone else, perchance) have jig you might have put together to make it easy to get a repeatable camber on a plane blade?

Dave

Upside down Veritas Tool Rest?

Dick....is that an upside down part of the Veritas tool rest you're using on top of your Wolverine tool rest?  That's what it looks like to me.

Dave

Re: Vee arm FYI

The V-arm was developed by OneWay specifically for sharpening roughing gouges. Of course, as Dick demonstrates, with a little more skill it can be used for sharpening other tools too.

Re: What is a Vee arm

It'll work for any width. You just use a very light touch and slide the slide back and forth on the wheel. Slow up in the center or the edges, what ever it take to grind a straight line. What I especially like about the arm is that it never moves. You can endlessly check your progress and go right back to the EXACT place you were before.

Re: This would also work for putting a camber on a blade!

I don't think I kept a temporary fixture I made. It was a block of wood with a saw slice in it, then a section of dowel glued into the back. The dowel centered up in the V.

Re: Upside down Veritas Tool Rest?

Not the upside down piece but the slide of this rest. https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/sharpening/jigs-mounts-and-rests/32972-veritas-deluxe-power-sharpening-set?item=05D1201

Can be purchased separately

https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/search#q=%2005M0601&t=product-search-tab&sort=relevancy&layout=card&numberOfResults=25

Found the camber jig

This was for a very shallow radius and about the very max length of dowel!