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  0 Thread: How to know when your edge is "sharp" enough
Post: RE: How to know when your edge is "sharp" enough
Hank Knight Wrote: (05-26-2024, 04:21 PM) -- Not necessarily. I used to shave arm hair, but not anymore. My 80 years have reduced my body hair to almost nothing, and I am protective of the little I h...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 32 8,865 08-14-2024, 09:42 PM
  0 Thread: How to know when your edge is "sharp" enough
Post: RE: How to know when your edge is "sharp" enough
I usually test on newspaper doing the S pattern as I slice down. That usually means it plenty sharp for my purposes.
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 32 8,865 05-23-2024, 07:22 PM
  0 Thread: Sharpening
Post: RE: Sharpening
I've settled on the paul sellers method for plane blades using diamond plates and strop.  I might get a jig for smaller blades that I don't use often, such as spoke shaves.  I got a highly worn/used ...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 22 5,880 05-23-2024, 02:35 PM
  0 Thread: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Post: RE: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Bencuri Wrote: (03-14-2024, 05:58 PM) -- Here is this plane in action: I decided to tighten the mouth on my home made plane, it cut a nice hollow, and I did it in two steps: 2mm and 3mm. Clean surfac...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 24 7,564 03-14-2024, 06:28 PM
  0 Thread: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Post: RE: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
ZachDillinger Wrote: (03-13-2024, 08:48 AM) -- I've bought a couple of things from Aliexpress over the years. I've never had any financial issues pop up, i.e. identity theft, credit card theft. My bi...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 24 7,564 03-13-2024, 06:46 PM
  0 Thread: All you might want to know about sole "flatness"
Post: RE: All you might want to know about sole "flatnes...
I watched that hand scraped video recently. Pretty cool, especially for those that use that equipment for other purposes and have it handy.
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 52 12,203 03-03-2024, 01:59 PM
  0 Thread: Naniwa Chocera Pro Stones
Post: RE: Naniwa Chocera Pro Stones
I've heard great things about both stones.  The only complaint I've heard about Naniwa is many have said they often develop cracks. Just something I've hard in Sharpening forums and yt channels.
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 9 2,062 02-19-2024, 12:51 PM
  0 Thread: The Depths to which Pop Woodworking has Sunk
Post: RE: The Depths to which Pop Woodworking has Sunk
I was tempted on buying a number 5 bedrock Wood River jackplane before christmas. They were on sale for 169 bucks. Back up to about 240 now.  The only brand new premium plane I've ever bought was a ...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 34 8,772 02-10-2024, 06:08 PM
  0 Thread: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Post: RE: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
FrankAtl Wrote: (02-08-2024, 08:43 AM) -- I guess I'm paranoid too and I try my best not to send money to China. Difficult to do these days but I try! -- I wouldn't give them my debit card info, bu...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 24 7,564 02-08-2024, 03:15 PM
  0 Thread: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Post: RE: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
rwe2156 Wrote: (02-08-2024, 11:04 AM) -- Locking mechanism? I've bought a couple things from AliExpress, but never thought about that/ -- Yep, locking lever in the back.  https://live.st...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 24 7,564 02-08-2024, 02:50 PM
  0 Thread: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Post: RE: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Just arrived.  Nice tool for $14.91.  https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53515782366_0414fcebe6.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2px1nCS)
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 24 7,564 02-07-2024, 08:27 PM
  0 Thread: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Post: RE: Cute router plane from Aliexpress
Bencuri Wrote: (01-13-2024, 02:22 AM) -- It is still available at a bit higher price, but not that bad at all even for that money: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005854673387.html You can find ...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 24 7,564 01-28-2024, 01:12 PM
  0 Thread: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
Post: RE: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
AHill Wrote: (12-29-2023, 11:18 AM) --   Nortons were a great improvement, and Shaptons a notch above that.  I currently use Sigma Power Select, which seem to have a sweet spot of being aggressive en...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 11 2,687 12-29-2023, 01:30 PM
  0 Thread: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
Post: RE: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
Thanks for the replies gentlemen.  I was doing it over the sink, with frequent flattenings and washing the stones with running water often. It might have been a fluke, got a couple more chisels to f...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 11 2,687 12-28-2023, 12:52 PM
  0 Thread: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
Post: Waterstone grit Norton vs Shapton ceramic
I got a 20 year old Norton combo waterstone.  4k/8K.. I bought a shapton pro kuromaku 12K a year ago.  Was prepping the back of a new Japanese chisel I bought and working up through the grits. At 8K...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 11 2,687 12-26-2023, 01:12 PM
  0 Thread: Have You Ever Rounded Over an Edge Stropping?
Post: RE: Have You Ever Rounded Over an Edge Stropping?
I've had success using Paul Sellers method of stropping. X-fine diamond stone to strop.  That is on woodworking plane blades and chisels. On kitchen knives my results were not so consistent. I did te...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 38 13,239 06-01-2023, 04:44 PM
  0 Thread: Now that's a bench
Post: RE: Now that's a bench
stav Wrote: (05-16-2023, 07:07 PM) -- No longer up.  Did you bring it home? -- Nope.  If it was nearby I would have been tempted.
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 3 1,559 05-17-2023, 04:53 AM
  0 Thread: Now that's a bench
Post: Now that's a bench
Listed on Craigslist.  Over 9 feet long and quite a slab. Very similar to the famous "Dominy family" workbench. Mega bench (https://syracuse.craigslist.org/atq/d/syracuse-19th-century-woodworking/...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 3 1,559 05-16-2023, 01:02 PM
  0 Thread: Paul Sellers sharpening system, which diamond stones?
Post: RE: Paul Sellers sharpening system, which diamond ...
CStan Wrote: (07-10-2022, 10:24 AM) -- Poor Paul Sellers can't make a casual observation about honing fluids he's used without being fisked half to death. Is he George Hepplewhite reincarnated?  No,...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 151 56,034 07-10-2022, 12:09 PM
  0 Thread: Paul Sellers sharpening system, which diamond stones?
Post: RE: Paul Sellers sharpening system, which diamond ...
Timberwolf Wrote: (07-10-2022, 09:04 AM) -- ................... In my collection I have a cabinet filled with dozens of hones, from flea markets, tool shows and yard sales..Some I have had all my ...
 Ricky Woodworking Hand Tools 151 56,034 07-10-2022, 11:24 AM

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