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It seems no one will ever agree on the best way to sharpen woodworking tools and I'm not going to try and convince anyone either. Check out my articles and videos that detail my process and the discoveries I have made when it comes to sharpening lots of hand tools
My recent saw sharpening video where I demonstrated the Veritas Saw File Holder has generated a lot of emails with questions about saw tooth geometry. I take this as a good sign that lots of people are actually thinking about sharpening their own saws. Not only that but the introduction of filing guides like the [...] Read more »
I did a demo on tweaking a hand saw to make it start easier recently during one of my monthly live sessions over at The Hand Tool School. During that session, I guesstimated the rake angle and used a shop made guide block on my file. The new Veritas saw filing guide had been released [...] Read more »
When it comes to moulding plane irons and carving chisels my philosophy is to not sharpen. I prefer only to hone. In both instances my cutting edges don’t encounter a lot of abuse so I’m not having to grind out a nick in the edge or re-shape a bevel angle. My moulding planes only get [...] Read more »
As a follow up to my conversation with Andrew Detloff about what to look for when buying a hand cranked grinder, this episode details how I use the grinder in my day to day sharpening routine. I managed to pull an Underhill early on in this video and cut myself along the sharp edge of [...] Read more »
Does anybody want to see a video of how I actually use this to sharpen? One of my Hand Tool School members, Andrew Detloff, had some questions about getting a hand cranked grinder. Considering the number of questions I get about this topic, it seemed that some more information was in order. Since Andrew is [...] Read more »
I posted a quick video a week ago about a few hand cranked grinders that have come into my shop. I has one of them almost ready to go back to work sharpening chisels and hand planes. It was already working quite well, but I took apart the crankcase and cleaned and oiled all the [...] Read more »
I’m sure many of you saw the short video that Christopher Schwarz put up a few weeks back showing off a hand cranked grinder that he uses. I commented on that post worried that the infamous Schwarz effect would drive up the prices of hand cranked grinders everywhere. This is something I have been casually [...] Read more »
It is no secret that I am a fan of Bad Axe Toolworks and Mark Harrell. I have 2 of his back saws and Mark has restored 4 of my vintage hand and panel saws. All of these saws work like a dream and just the other day I took delivery of a new 26″ [...] Read more »
I just bought 2 new specialty carving chisels as part of my ball & claw foot adventure. When I pulled them out of the shipping box I was anxious to get to work with them and skipped the sharpening initiation and went right to work. You know, they cut really well. Granted I’m using a [...] Read more »
This is my last post on WIA and I save a good one til last. Mike Wenzloff knows everything there is to know about saw sharpening and in this episode he hits on the highlights to get a great performing saw. I got to sit in the front row and it was practically like having [...] Read more »
