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I was always told BB, when it comes to sharpening, "Never overspend". I am not referring to the diamond stones at all, but all the crazy gizmos they have out there to make dull tools sharp. They have so many electron powered widgets that its scary...along with their prices...when you could rub steel against a rock for awhile and get it just as sharp. Choose your own method, but man choose wisely eh?
The one thing I do like to do though, is after sharpening my chisels, strop them on leather charged with rouge. Black, red, white, whatever. Man are my chisels ever sharp. Of course you could use sand paper, diamond stone or whatever to get it to that point, but rouge laden leather gives everything a nice edge.
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For the past several years I worked as a machinist for a yacht building company here in Maine. We did high end stuff, so it typically meant a day or two of welding and machining, then a week of polishing the stainless to a bright luster.
One of the highlights of that job was fabricating the granite counter trim on this one boat...the Electra. It had this 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch stainless steel trim 300 linear feet long that wrapped around a groove cut in the stainless and in the wood trim. I mitered the outside corners, coped the inside corners and then polished every weld so it was unseeable. It took nine months, but came out nice and all the polishing was done with 100 grit-4000 grit and then rouge buffed to a polish. You can see in the second picture how the trim went around the coffee tables too.
You be the judge. (Sorry for the thread drift Cweick)
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| Its called a leather strop isn't it, barbers used to use them to finish the razor sharpening? I have a really curved grafting knife that I use (the French on I metioned above) The blade is curved inwards if you know what I mean and it is really difficult to sharpen. I have to use the chefs steel because the flat stone cant do it. Actually the more I think about this French knife the more I am not sure whether I really like it or if its just a ideal shape. I do find it a little light in weight. Personally the case ones of WOS seemed a little to fancy for my liking (thats wierd saying a American made thing is more fancy than a French made one!!!) CWEIRCK you are going to get it from WOS for not knowing what a Zippo is!!!
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CWEIRCK you are going to get it from WOS for not knowing what a Zippo is!!! I know, however I'm running on coffee and no sleep since last week. But in my life time, I have never came across a zippo. Down here it's only BICs and matches whether single strike or not.
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| My first and last experience with a zippo was one I was given by a Greek freind who went to college in Austin TX and when the fuel ran out I almost killed myself by filling it with petrol (gas for cars) I think BICS are better and I use them as well. Now WOS is going to call me an idiot...again.
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I won't. I had a zippo in my pocket (safer for welders supposedly) and it flipped over in my pocket, the fluid leaked out and my thigh had a rash for a month from the fluid. No thanks, I'll take my chances with a Bic.
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I don't use sharpening stones. I have a 1" x 30 belt sander and a 1000 grit belt, as well as a felt "buffing" belt. One pass each way at a high angle and the knives are good for another year.
For other tools, shovels, hoes, etc I change to a coarser grit belt.
I've even sharpened skill saw blades with this set up. No fine cutting just cheapie blades for cutting up pallets.
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| What do you consider as a high angle?
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With the sander off, I hold the blade flat against the platen. Then I tilt the top of the blade away from the sander until I feel the bevel at the blade edge match the platen surface.
Now I switch the sander on and using a very light pressure run the blade across the sanding belt using the angle that matches the original bevel.
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