I've made a couple of rather nice jigs for honing my planer knives. Nothing terribly original, I guess, but I'm pleased with the end result, nevertheless.
Enjoy!
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TrimTheKing wrote:“With any luck…in goes me knob…excellent!”
A sentence I’ve uttered many times!
Stuart wrote:Useful video Steve, thanks for posting.
Would I be right in thinking that you could do away with the locking knobs by using ‘stopped’ grooves the same length as the blades (i.e. main block same length as blades and then a couple of small blocks screwed on the ends)?
TomTrees wrote:Very much enjoying your videos Steve.
Not being knowledgable about the practical maintenance of such a machine,
but I gotta ask a few questions.
Why not hone all three knives at the same time?,
Tom
TomTrees wrote:and why wouldn't you go a step further with a finer abrasive since you made the nice jig for easily holding the knives?
Tom
TomTrees wrote:And lastly about the use of such a jig,
Have you found the detritus a problem when giving them a lick,
and might it be necessary to demagnetize the knives afterwards.
Tom
Steve Maskery wrote:TomTrees wrote:and why wouldn't you go a step further with a finer abrasive since you made the nice jig for easily holding the knives?
Tom
You certainly could if you wanted to. But when you sharpen a chisel or a plane iron, you push it perpendicular to the edge, so it make sense to make the scratches as fine as it is possible to do.
But with planer knives, all the scratches are parallel to the edge, so they don't really matter. Just as long as the very edge is clean, that is all that matters. So in practice, P120 produces excellent results, quickly.
Steve Maskery wrote:TomTrees wrote:
How would you hold them? They would all have to be exactly in line and I don't see how you could keep three in place. I've never seen a version that does that, and this is not an original idea.
TomTrees wrote:I had longevity of the edge in mind rather than finish quality, and have no reason to doubt
the norm, as any hand tool guy would have found out for themselves through the past hundred years of expertise.
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