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glass for sharpening - konaman - 01-15-2017
Where do people buy glass to adhere sandpaper for the scary sharp system? Do I just go the big box store and get cut glass?
RE: glass for sharpening - JimReed@Tallahassee - 01-15-2017
I use a marble floor tile from the box store.
RE: glass for sharpening - C. in Indy - 01-15-2017
And... call me a rebel, but I say why adhere the sandpaper? I always either pull my edge-bevels along the papers, or run small figure-8's with the flat parts of the blades. So my sandpapers have no tendency to lift-off. Then I can change grits/papers as often as I like.
Chris
RE: glass for sharpening - Bill_Houghton - 01-15-2017
Contact a few glass stores, and see if they have scrap plate glass. You might get it for free.
RE: glass for sharpening - Cecil - 01-15-2017
yard sale / household sale.
RE: glass for sharpening - Admiral - 01-15-2017
(01-15-2017, 12:13 PM)Bill_Houghton Wrote: Contact a few glass stores, and see if they have scrap plate glass. You might get it for free.
This is exactly what I did when I was into scary sharp, nice, thick plate glass, think like from a storefront; I told them what I was doing with it and they even beveled the edges for me!
RE: glass for sharpening - Ricky - 01-15-2017
I used plate glass... Any flat hard surface should work.
RE: glass for sharpening - doobes - 01-15-2017
I used granite slabs from the dumpster behind the counter top place, with permission of course.
They were squared up using a tile saw.
I recently gave them all away on TS&S.
RE: glass for sharpening - wood2woodknot - 01-15-2017
I used glass from old picture frames on top of a piece of mdf, fiber board, or plywood (double stick tape would keep the glass secure). Frames are incredibly cheap at the thrift stores, even cheaper than at yard sales. I also put a couple coats of varnish on mdf to harden the surface and waterproof it. Have also used ceramic floor tile ($1.00 each) from the big box.
RE: glass for sharpening - omark - 01-15-2017
Make sure when you get that glass plate it is sufficiently flat.
I have seen Frank Klausz remark about that, and therefore he used melamine/particleboard
during the hand plane lapping.
Ceramic tiles mentioned above is also good idea (and also good to check).