chisels - Terry Farrell

[Farrell]

The flat sides of the grinding stone have coarse and fine grit. If grinding is needed, I grind them on the stone. And then I follow up with polishing on the leather strop.

I'm not an expert at blade sharpening. I know I get many blades pretty darn sharp - believe me, I know:



This sucker was deep and was close to spurting as my hear beat! Just finished polishing a hand plane blade (cleaning the polishing compound off the blade).



Maybe I'm not getting as perfect a back-side edge as I can. I don't know. I've always wondered about grinding the back side of a blade: can you really grind a  small thickness off the entire back side of a blade (I mean a normal human with manual methods)?

Seems to me you'll always have a small bevel on the back side of the blade. I know that is not optimal, but is it avoidable?

I don't know. I'm eager to learn. I've been doing what seems to work, but I'll be the first to say that I don't know if my methods are optimal.

Suggestions?

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  I agree with what Mr. Monroe says about the stones doing other tools well that can't be done on Tormek.  Also, and as importantly, how will you put that mirror finish on the back of your blades without using your Shaptons?  I don't think the Tormek system offers that option, does it?

  Jim Frazee
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