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Forum: SHARPENING

How do you sharpen your turning tools, carving tools, plane blades, router and moulding blades, etc. Ideas and help for newbies. New or advanced techniques, old, tried and true methods. How, when, why, etc

  1. Sharpening using a Wetstone

    Started by 12berr, 29th July 2021 12:45 AM
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 817
    17th August 2021, 04:04 PM Go to last post
  2. 6" jointer blades, sharpen or replace

    Started by 3 toed sloth, 25th April 2012 11:06 PM
    $50.00, bit, blades, blunt, bought, buy, chipped, chips, gday, h&f, jointer, memory, peter, professionally, region, replace, set, sharpen, sharpened, standard, sydney, thinking, western, wondering
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,719
    26th April 2012, 11:37 PM Go to last post
  3. Ancient Knife grinder.....for planer blades

    Started by 3Dsigns, 24th October 2012 01:29 PM
    $50, ancient, bar, belt, bevel, blades, fitting, flat, garage, gears, gem, grind/sharpen, grinder, grinderfor, knife, nice, picked, piece, planer, rack/pinion, rails, rough, sale, shape, straight, uniform
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,920
    28th October 2012, 10:59 AM Go to last post
  4. The Scary Sharp method

    Started by 3Landerblue, 5th September 2003 07:49 PM
    3landerblue, bench, blade, block, cheers, chinese, copy, fitted, method, plane, planes, purchased, remember, sanding, sandpaper, scary, sharp, sharpening, stanley, stuff, teacher, timber, woodwork
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,937
    12th September 2003, 08:31 AM Go to last post
  5. Difficulty sharpening A2 plane blades with waterstones

    Started by Acolyte, 21st July 2008 03:44 PM
    10mins, 8000, acolyte, amount, appreciated, blades, cheers, common, compound, day, difficulty, edge, equivalent, experienced, feedback, honing, micro-bevel, plane, quarter, sharp, sharpen, sharpening, shave, steel, strop, time, tips, veritas, waterstones, whilst
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 5,616
    22nd July 2008, 10:50 AM Go to last post
  6. Moraine Stone

    Started by adeben, 16th December 2010 09:15 PM
    assumimg, assumption, correct, elderly, fine, friend, hard, hone, honing, intended, moraine, razor, reddish, stone, straight, tools
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,722
    30th December 2010, 07:48 AM Go to last post
  7. Help flatening chisel backs ...

    Started by Afro Boy, 17th April 2009 09:49 PM
    ago, backs, bad, bevel, blade, chisel, chisels, close, dmt, dropped, flat, flatening, handles, japanese, minutes, noticing, online, options, owner, pitting, previous, purchased, removed, shape, slight, stone, times
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,968
    5th June 2009, 11:51 AM Go to last post
  8. Question Smoking bits ...

    Started by Afro Boy, 17th February 2008 06:02 PM
    assume, bit, bits, burn, cheap, cheers, cuttings, drill, drillings, error, expecting, fast, fire, folks, forstner, hard, marks, normal, purchased, pushing, recently, resharpened, running, runs, set, smoking, stuff, timbecon, user, wonderful
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 2,801
    20th February 2008, 07:37 PM Go to last post
  9. Does anyone know what this is?

    Started by AJS, 3rd April 2009 07:58 AM
    affiliated, alex, auction, clue, collection, google, japan, japanese, kindest, makes, natural, original, planes, pretty, products, razor, restorer, sense, site, speak, starting, stones, straight, territory, translation, user, whilst, wondered, word, yahoo
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,629
    4th April 2009, 12:39 PM Go to last post
  10. sharpening blades

    Started by alan hughes, 1st August 2004 12:42 AM
    appreciated, blades, bought, feedback, machine, quality, secondhand, sharpened-roughly, sharpening, spare, thicknesser
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 3,783
    6th August 2004, 09:51 PM Go to last post
  11. How to sharpen kitchen knives????

    Started by AlanS, 1st February 2011 02:38 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    dull, edge, foolproof, free-hand, henckel, kitchen, knives, love, method, razor, sharp, sharpen, sharpening, suggestions, terrible, wonderful
    • Replies: 42
    • Views: 9,621
    7th November 2011, 01:44 PM Go to last post
  12. Power Sharpening Options

    Started by Ando967, 28th December 2023 06:27 PM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 2,603
    31st January 2024, 04:18 PM Go to last post
  13. DMT vs Waterstones/oilstones

    Started by Andreas87, 4th September 2011 07:22 PM
    1000-8000grit, 3000grit, bought, cherries, chisels, combi, corse-exfine250-1200grit, corse250grit, dmt, duo, faster, flattening, king, naniwa, oilstone, sharp, stone, takes, time, waterstone, waterstones, waterstones or oilstones, waterstones/oilstones, whould, wondering
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 5,608
    5th September 2011, 11:30 PM Go to last post
  14. Shun waterstones

    Started by Andreas87, 4th January 2012 08:43 AM
    #300#1000, 300/1000, amazon.com, chisels, city, combination, combo, dining, found, kitchen, knife, planes, price, reasonable, replies, sharpening, shun, stone, stones, store, water, waterstones, whetstone, wondering
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,902
    4th January 2012, 08:43 AM Go to last post
  15. Need new waterstone, what to choose?

    Started by Andreas87, 14th October 2011 08:20 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    1000#, 3000#, appreciated2tsup, bellied, bought, chisel, choose, dmt, feels, flat, flatten, guys, i’m, jump, king, lot, process, reduce, results, sandpaper, sharpening, stone, stones, technique, thread, time, water, waterstone, wear, witch
    • Replies: 38
    • Views: 9,411
    27th December 2011, 11:07 AM Go to last post
  16. Water stones and sharpening techniques

    Started by andrewsd, 16th May 2006 02:42 PM
    4 Pages
    1 2 3 4
    1200, 800, articles, based, bit, blades, chisels, couple, diamond, dry, edge, fair, glass, grade, paper, plane, plate, questions, razor, recommend, recommending, sharpening, sheet, spend, stones, system, techniques, water, waterstone, wet
    • Replies: 49
    • Views: 8,509
    12th January 2007, 10:42 AM Go to last post
  17. circular saw blade sharpener Timbecon vs Forestwest

    Started by AndyJ, 24th February 2022 09:15 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 3,779
    23rd August 2023, 06:04 PM Go to last post
  18. Talking Tormet T-7 first usage

    Started by ank, 9th January 2013 12:11 PM
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 1,967
    13th January 2013, 07:51 PM Go to last post
  19. Sharpening videos

    Started by Arch Stanton, 16th February 2007 10:52 AM
    blade, bloke, chisels, diamond, plane, read, sharpening, stones, videos, visualise, watched, waterstones, youtube
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,626
    16th February 2007, 06:05 PM Go to last post
  20. Bastard Files

    Started by Arch Stanton, 22nd August 2009 02:27 PM
    accumulating, axe, bastard, brand, brian, files, melbourne, mill, pay, pretty, range, sharpen, stock, times, tools, top
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,162
    30th August 2009, 06:55 PM Go to last post
  21. Help me identify this stone

    Started by ArJunaBug, 11th July 2009 04:56 AM
    belonged, black, boiled, carbide, clean, close, dad, detergent, dishwashing, figure, figures, flat, friend, glass, house, identify, instantly, lapped, photos, pot, sandpaper, sharpening, sheet, silicon, stone, stuff, type, water, wet/dry
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,112
    11th July 2009, 04:56 AM Go to last post
  22. A really sweet way to finish sharpening

    Started by arose62, 6th March 2012 12:41 PM
    aimed, andrew, cheers, finish, rub, sharpening, sweet, tools, woodies
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 2,250
    6th March 2012, 10:30 PM Go to last post
  23. Sharpening a Stanley 81

    Started by Arron, 9th August 2005 09:40 PM
    arron, bevelled, blade, guess, hook, search, shape, sharpen, sharpening, squared, stanley, stanly, word
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 5,382
    11th August 2005, 07:06 PM Go to last post
  24. Diamond honing plates - is this good thinking

    Started by Arron, 25th March 2016 10:26 AM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,380
    27th March 2016, 09:49 PM Go to last post
  25. Saw sharpening files

    Started by Arron, 15th January 2006 09:40 AM
    3mm, 4.2mm, arron, collet, engineering, expect, extra, file, files, finer, guys, handles, hardware, interchangeable, jewellery, measured, middle, nicer, range, screw, sharpening, shop, slim, store, street, supplier, supply, taper, typical, york
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 6,467
    15th January 2006, 05:06 PM Go to last post
  26. How do you know how sharp something is

    Started by Arron, 23rd February 2004 08:10 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    arm, arron, blade, carve, fairly, hair, heard, just-finished, keen, left, nearby, original, piece, poor, removed, scrap, sharp, sharpening, solution, test, wood
    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 7,217
    1st March 2004, 07:19 AM Go to last post
  27. Sharpening an 81

    Started by Arron, 10th October 2004 09:15 PM
    40degrees, arron, bevel, burnisher, buy, edge, file, flat, hook, idea, polish, roll, scraper, sharpen, sharpening, sound, square, stanley, straight, tool, wonderful
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,385
    11th October 2004, 10:24 AM Go to last post
  28. More on sharpening

    Started by Arron, 3rd November 2003 05:04 PM
    100, 130, arron, bath, bench, brunnings, chisels, coarse, fit, gmc, gray, grinder, grit, honing, part-way, planes, plays, rest, rpm, scary, shaping, sharpening, sound, speed, suitable, tool, tools, water, wheel, white
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 3,919
    4th November 2003, 05:04 PM Go to last post
  29. Me to do of measuring angle using laser

    Started by Arron, 6th June 2017 06:17 PM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,175
    6th June 2017, 06:17 PM Go to last post
  30. Saw sharpening

    Started by Arron, 23rd September 2005 08:00 PM
    adria, arron, couple, disappointed, expectations, inclination, learn, nameless, outcome, remain, saws, service, sharpened, sharpening, sydney, tenon, time
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 3,933
    24th September 2005, 07:55 PM Go to last post

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