Holy S**t!! sharp chisels!

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That is progress for you! Congratulations on new insight and an important step towards craftsmanship and more pleasure:-)

Bjarte

Had the same problem yesterday. And i was wondering why I was getting grain tearing. STUPID ME!

Keith

Sometimes the obvious is stareing you in the face. LOL Wish my wife knew how to sharpen. She says that I can,t even sharpen a knife. And shes correct!

WHAT is the purpose of MAKE BELIEVE SWEARING on the Subject line.

And real swearing in the body? Color me old fashioned, but I take umbrage with that. There are likely ladies and youngsters here lurking somewhere. I believe intelligent people can and should express themselves creatively, but non-offensively...

...Kevin

-- Kevin Miller

If there are any other non-believers out there, pay attention. If there is one thing you need to learn before anything else, it is how to tell if your tools are dull, and then how to sharpen them.

Alan Lacer was at our club for a demo and hands-on December 3 & 4. Part of the discussion was how we describe "sharp". When we say "sharp", just how sharp do we mean? We talked about "sorta sharp". "pretty sharp", even "scary sharp" (in a tongue-in-cheek shot at some of us, Alan talked bout "bowl-turner sharp"!)

Alan said you know you've got it really, really sharp when you bring your finger to within a 16th of the point, and it just starts to bleed. I guess that would be "Holy S**t sharp".

I had a friend who drank a lot, and his ideal wife owned a liquor store. Now a turner who marries a woman who owns a sharpening business... :-)

Happy turning!

Ron Williams Minn-Dak Woodturners Moorhead, MN

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One afternoon I realized that I was getting lousy results and working far too hard for them. I spent the rest of that afternoon sharpening my lathe tools, learning to 'get it right' and learning, for the first time in my life, how to use a diamond 'stone' to touch up an edge.

Ever since then, as soon as a tool shows the tiniest reluctance to cut cleanly, I've had no compunctions about stopping what I am doing, turning around to the table behind me and either picking up the diamond plate or flicking on -my- 1" belt sander and giving the tool a touch up. It takes about 15 seconds with the diamond, about the same with the sander. Then I'm back in the business of making the shavings fly.

And that's why I turned the lathe on in the first place.

Bill

thanks.. and she did the skew again today because some dumb shit tried to get a bowl just a little better and nicked a faceplate screw

My wife does the same thing to the knives... but then she sharpens them, so I don't say a word.. lol

Yep.. chips and shavings... I was like a little kid! I turned off the DC so I could keep some shavings to show her..lol

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:36:47 -0800, "Keith Young" wrote: old habit from when Al Gore & I invented the internet.. no profanity on subject line...

hey.. like it says on my grand kid's bib: spit happens..

I agree in most cases, Derek, but not in my case... not only is my wife great at it, I really, really, suck.. I never could get a decent edge on a knife, ax, chisel, drill or anything else.. I'm hopeless at sharpening..

Sometime back ( a year or so?) on either this or the rec.woodworking group, there was a nice bit about sharpening- kindova take off on the scary sharp method with DEATH sharpening his sythe. If I remember correctly the last thing DEATH used to sharpen on was the photons of the dawn light. A pretty funnny bit.

The worth of a woman is far above that of rubies...................especially one who can sharpen like that!

Barry

I'm very fastidious about sharp lathe tools. Not so much a honed and stropped edge, but a good sharp edge off a well tuned grinder. You can see me sharpening every couple of minutes when I'm doing production bowl work. That's why I go through grinding wheels every 6 months and a 1/2 bowl gouge last me about 14 months before its too short to use.

My friends call me the "Sharpening Nazi". When I'm teaching and a student calls me over, the first thing I ask is if they have sharpened their tool withing the last minute or so. If not, I tell them to sharpen and THEN call me over. That fact alone usually solves their "problem".

A sharp tool can make *ALL* the difference.

Peter Teubel Milford, MA

for sure, Barry.. and she makes biscuits and gravy from scratch... whatta woman!!

Mac this is the web site you need to visit to sharpen lathe tools. I've bought books, watched, thought but until I found this sight I couldn't sharpen sharp tools.

She does her sharpening free hand on her belt grinder and has been using the grinding wheels to make me a few turning chisels.. NOW I know what a bowl gouge is for!!! lol

BTW: Darrel's site is an excellent place to hang out.. I spend a lot of time there..

mac

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