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RE: Affording good sharpening stones - hbmcc - 01-31-2020 Haw, hahhh! I thought Carter wore a bath/bed robe to keep his t-shirts clean. During the intermission I checked his web page. His sharpening systems were pricey, funky looking; and his reasonably priced knives were scratching $1k. The business aspect of fever pitch human machine takes away from creative quality. Sort of a bean counter mentality. I do like his method for sharpening kitchen knives, however. I am pushing spousal tolerance by general sharpening there without the dented stainless sink, plugged pea-trap and sewer lines, and gritty counter top. Planes and chisels on the kitchen table are problematic at dinner time. But then, as a child, I watched my dad build life size dinosaur legs in the kitchen-living room. A woodworking apprenticeship of sorts. After all farm animals kept their people warm at night a thousand years ago. RE: Affording good sharpening stones - maswindell - 05-02-2022 (01-07-2020, 11:47 AM)Robin Dobbie Wrote: Good suggestions from everyone. Thanks! to be clear, again, I bought some shaptons and a diamond plate a while back. I just happened to see the pricing bug shown in the screenshot in the first post and thought it was worth a laugh.I was lucky years ago-20 maybe when dmt diamond were reasonble. I orderd a diamond combo from amazon for$27 400/1000 grit. While looking at youtube afew guys were using diamond plate from harbor freight, its 4 sided and comes in a stand for cheap. I am trying to the diamond plate to flatten chisel backs. As an aside I must have not locked the garage door and my collection of Witherby's was stolen !! I am beyond pissed because I was ready to sell them along with alot more chisels, but interesting that the thief only took the witherbys but I also have over 30 of name brand vintage that I will be selling. I hope they show up on Craigslist but I doubt it. |