On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:28:50 -0500, Gordon Airporte <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Vince Heuring wrote:
>> Yup, Santa brought me my first plane, a Veritas block plane. Now I just
>> need to learn how to use the thing. :-)
>>
>> Oh, and I need to get a vise and drill dog holes in my workbench. The
>> tool buying never ends...
>
>Chances are your sharpening department will inflate too. If you don't
>already have them, go right to water stones and skip the
>sandpaper-and-glass stuff (that's where everyone seems to end up
>anyway.) And of course the sharpening jigs...
Holy crap! The quantity of sharpening stuff accumulated over a
lifetime of woodworking adds up to quite a lot of $ and can take up a
good bit of space too.
oil stones, waterstones, sandpaper/glass plate system, honing guides
for the previous 3, Then there's the Tormek and it's associated jigs,
etc., etc. Yikes.
Personally, I use a Tormek. Most of the time.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:06:54 -0500, "Brent Beal" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"Vince Heuring" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:311220061229033582%[email protected]...
>>
>> Yup, Santa brought me my first plane, a Veritas block plane. Now I just
>> need to learn how to use the thing. :-)
>>
>Woodcraft sells a book called PLANECRAFT. IMHO, it is worth the money.
>
Garrett Hack's "Hand Plane" book is excellent.
"Vince Heuring" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:311220061229033582%[email protected]...
>
> Yup, Santa brought me my first plane, a Veritas block plane. Now I just
> need to learn how to use the thing. :-)
>
Woodcraft sells a book called PLANECRAFT. IMHO, it is worth the money.
Vince Heuring wrote:
> Yup, Santa brought me my first plane, a Veritas block plane. Now I just
> need to learn how to use the thing. :-)
>
> Oh, and I need to get a vise and drill dog holes in my workbench. The
> tool buying never ends...
Chances are your sharpening department will inflate too. If you don't
already have them, go right to water stones and skip the
sandpaper-and-glass stuff (that's where everyone seems to end up
anyway.) And of course the sharpening jigs...
In article
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Pat Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you don't already have them, go right to water stones
> and skip the sandpaper-and-glass stuff (that's where everyone
> seems to end up anyway.)
BTDT, but I'd recommend sandpaper-and-glass (scary sharp) to a beginner.
The method is inexpensive and one can easily learn and understand the
effect of a progression of grit sizes on sharpening speed and the
resultant edge.
After learning these lessons, use whatever works.
(Just bought an Ice Bear 4k stone to replace my worn out King 4k stone.)
--
"Keep your ass behind you."
No, they're not. Sharpening on sandpaper works just fine. So do water
stones, ceramic stones, oil stones and diamond stones.
"Pat Barber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> What is your reasoning behind that ???
>
> Do you really feel like the stones are that
> superior to sandpaper and glass ?
>