Sharpening wood chisels

I just grind them on the front of the wheel.

A belt sander also works reasonably well and is less likely to burn the edges if you need to remove a lot of metal and don't have much experience grinding carbon steel.

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Am going to check out the diamond stones at HF. I have had a large EZ Lap diamond stone forever, and it works great. BUT, looking at the stone, the edges are still rough like fine sandpaper, and the middle is getting smooth. Do those eventually wear out, and wear off the diamonds? They can't be that thick, although the stone was spendy. Sure works good, and I need a large stone to sharpen some of my larger knives and "stuff".

Steve

Not sure , but seems the diamond dust will be torn from the bonding agent over time ... the HF set is what I consider a "good buy" .

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:13:53 -0600, the infamous "SteveB" scrawled the following:

Pick up a copy of Leonard Lee's bible on sharpening if you want to know everything about it.

Or just google "scary sharp" and be done with it.

I learned how to ScarySharpen(tm) and condensed it down to several grits of diamond hone before the super fine sandpaper and strop.

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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:24:09 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus29131 scrawled the following:

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Let the Record show that "SteveB" on or about Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:59:02 -0600 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Remember - diamond stones are still stones - they remove metal really well. But they do not serve to hone the edge . For that, you need a real hard stone - there's a reason the Arkansas stones are so popular. I learned this the hard way, trying to clean something up with an extra fine diamond stone. Couldn't get that final edge I wanted. Same thing goes for kitchen knives.

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American Woodworkers Mag/ Ian Kirby's Grinder Jig It was pretty simple really, a pair of 2X4 blocks notched to a half circle, with a pipe running between them, set up in front of the grinder wheels. Then it had these jigs that the plane blade mounted in and slid into and across the grinding wheel. I made a version of it at one point but gave it to my neighbor when I moved.

Just a note on a source for the white wheels, found the Norton 6 x 1 x

Green wheels are for Carbide.

What you want is a white, then a dark black, then a fine pink.

Gunner

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Tim

Jig on a surface grinder :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

I've done that to straighten out old plane blades. The problem is that the surface grinder burns the edge unless it makes a VERY light cut. I used 0.00025", which takes a while.

jsw