AxlMyk

After having my set of chisels for a while and not being happy with how sharp they were, I bought a Veritas honing guide to sharpen them with. I also used it to sharpen my Stanley-Bailey plane.

Here is a slideshow I came up with to show the steps involved.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_ju...37476154/show/

After honing my chisels to just the coarsest grit of paper, I found that they were already sharper than when I bought them. Taking them through the entire sequence brought them all to a razor sharpness.

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rmaxa

Mike that was a great slide show. Sharpening tools is still a mystery for me. I bought a Craftsman Utility Sharpener, I get a usable edge. I never get to the point that you show in your slides. I should try your way.

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challagan

Excellent Mike and thanks for that. I was just talking on the phone yesterday with Bob Noles about this very subject. Nice to see it in action!

Corey

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S Bolton

I also enjoyed your slide show. Which Veritas honing guide did you buy? It appears like it is the one just below the most expensive one.

Anyone have thoughts on which Veritas honing guide to buy? They offer two with the Veritas® Mk.II Honing Guide being the more expensive of the two. Is it worth the extra money.

Anyway, thanks for the sharpening info.

Steve Bolton

Joe Lyddon

Mike, that's a super good slide show on he Scary Sharp system...

I love it... it's amazing how sandpaper can work like that...

... and you added a final honing step to top it off!

Thank you for a great show!

challagan

From what I have read and been told, a basic guide is more than adequate Steve. The Veritas that Mike is using is a good one.

Corey

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S Bolton

I am embarrassed to ask this, but what type of stone is used in the final process? Arkansas stone? I have read about the scary sharp system, and I am very impressed with it, but I am unfamilar with this final step.

Thanks

Also embarrassed to ask how to spell check things on this forum. I think someone recently told me.

Thanks again.

Steve Bolton

challagan

No worries Steve. As you are typing and a word comes up underlined in red it is most likely a misspelled word, then right click the mouse on it and a list of possible correct words come up.

Corey

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S Bolton

My words never come up underlined in red, like they do in Microsoft. I wonder if I can turn something on?

sb

AxlMyk

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.

S Bolton, I use Firefox and it spell checks everything you type.

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