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I have been wanting one of these for about three years. I finally made one! This was made from one of the cutters in an old broken pencil sharpener. It was a bit dull so I sharpened the cutter using the ancient method of soaking it in vinegar. Now it is nice and sharp. A bit [...] Derek Cohen has done a Comparison of Diamond Grit vs Green Rouge. It is great to see interest in diamond spreading, even though this review does not come out positive for diamond grit. For some background, Derek Cohen is in my opinion one of the great woodworkers on the net. He shares his methods and [...] A few odd points to clear up some common misunderstanding on tools and sharpness. The first point is, that unless you are changing the actual angle of the blade to make it a lower degree angle, you are more specifically making the blade keen. Making a blade keen does not make a weaker blade. Thing about the [...] Dubbing. We are not perfect in our methods. An ideal edge might be perfectly keen. Sadly we will rock a bit as we sharpen. at the very end we tend to rock just a smidgeon, and cause a fine dub. Now we have a bit of an issue. When we rock it back flat, the end of the blade [...] The Gritty Details Here is a table of the relative grit sizes of the different standards used. CAMI is the American Standard, and for a long time is was the main standard. The European standard, FEPA, is more precise, and so FEPA graded sandpaper tends to work faster than CAMI. JIS is used for Japanese water [...] |
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