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Old 09-16-2007, 10:20 PM   #10
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Thanks all. I'm glad the slide show was useful. I had spent this weekend learning the process. I started with an old chisel set and was able to get all the nicks from abuse out of them.

The Veritas guide I have is model 05M0201 that I bought at Woodcraft for $38.99. They had the set with the angle jig for twice the price.
http://www.veritastools.com/Products/Page.aspx?p=119 I just cut a piece of oak on the TS to get a 25deg angle as that is the angle of all my blades.
Woodcraft also has the cheaper (Made in China) $15 honing guide, but the roller is very thin. The Veritas (Made in Canada) gives you more stability but it takes a bit more to get the 90deg set on it. It comes with a stick-on pad that prevents slipping of the tool being sharpened. I use that.

The stone I have is a Norton F88 Fine India oil stone. I also have a Norton Hard Arkansas oil stone that I could have used to polish to a mirror finish. I figure that would be going a bit overboard as the chisels already came out so sharp that they are "Scary". The 600 paper already sharpened the blades extremely sharp, and I'm not completely sure the stone helped, but I figured what the heck.

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