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RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Handplanesandmore - 05-01-2019
AHill- I wonder if the demonstrator has ever seen how Sellers sharpens his tools.
Simon
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Handplanesandmore - 05-01-2019
Derek, Most WP fans are power tool users. They wouldn't have the need to use anything outside the jig's settings. I am sure (100% this time) that some WP fans do not know
anything about cambered edges and the WP jig looks all good to them. $250 is not expensive to them either.
You are right that the jig is not designed with the hand tool woodworkers in mind.
Simon
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Mike Brady - 05-01-2019
(05-01-2019, 08:21 AM)Handplanesandmore Wrote: Derek, Most WP fans are power tool users. They wouldn't have the need to use anything outside the jig's settings. I am sure (100% this time) that some WP fans do not know
anything about cambered edges and the WP jig looks all good to them. $250 is not expensive to them either.
You are right that the jig is not designed with the hand tool woodworkers in mind.
Simon
If I had the money I still wouldn't buy WP stuff. Others do and will, but I don't envy them. It's like women and jewelry.
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Bill_Houghton - 05-01-2019
(05-01-2019, 08:09 AM)Derek Cohen Wrote: This is an awfully expensive guide when compared with the much cheaper LN, which has so much more potential and is beautifully built.
But Derek, the LN's not red. Makes all the difference.
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - cputnam - 05-02-2019
Note, too, that Woodpecker's sells primarily to the power tool crowd and they may have no clue what a honing guide is supposed to be or do.
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Derek Cohen - 05-02-2019
Exactly, Curt. One could discuss the issues on a predominantly power forum such as Festool Owners Group, and it will be disregarded as all they want to sharpen are chisels. The WP is a bright shiny lure.
Regards from Perth
Derek
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Rob Young - 05-03-2019
A solution in search of a problem. Meh.
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Phil Thien - 05-03-2019
This thing makes me love my WorkSharp even more.
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - EricU - 05-04-2019
I'm sure there are people that just have to have all of these tools, so as a marketing strategy it's not a bad idea. But the design does show a lack of understanding of how most people sharpen. It was clearly designed by someone that has a cad package and a deadline. And now they can have another $250 tool that sharpens plane blades on a stone
win-win for them
RE: Woodpecker's Honing Guide - Handplanesandmore - 05-04-2019
Wait until WP releases a red handplane (for power tool users)!
Simon