[pianotech] Of Chisels

[William Monroe]

Terry and all,

I use this jig to recreate the angle every time.  Very slick.  Slide in the
tool, push the holder to the edge of the jig, push the blade to the stop,
tighten and go.  Same angle, every time.  One side for Chisels, the other
for plane irons.

FWIW

William R. Monroe

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>wrote:

> I first tried to sharpen with stones, but  I found that it was difficult to
> touch up edges - if I wanted to do that, I found that I had to go back to a
> coarse grit because if was difficult for me to get the exact right angle.
> With the Tormek it is easy to hit the exact angle and either go coarse if
> needed, or fine is the blade isn't bad. I have no doubt that many kinds of
> stones are very good sharpening tools, but I only have so much time to spend
> learning to sharpen and I found that the Tormek made this learning curve
> VERY short and I have VERY sharp tools!
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> PS - you're welcome regarding the sides of the wheel!!!
>
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Thomas Cole wrote:
>
>  I'm not sure what you mean by having the natural skills to sharpen by
> hand. If you have a jig to hold a tool at a constant angle to the grinding
> surface, whatever method you use, you're going to get a better result than
> if the tool is hand held in my view. The reason I say so is that the cutting
> edge of a knife/chisel/plane blade, etc., is a microscopic part of the
> tool which can be easily damaged by the slightest clumsiness. This is the
> beauty of the Tormek, that it pretty well eliminates the klutz factor.
>
> Thanks for pointing out using the sides of the wheel for flattening the
> back of chisels. I had forgotten that.
>
> Tom Cole
>
>
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