On 01/07/2010 1:16 PM, W1TEF wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:24:34 -0600,
wrote:

On 01/07/2010 10:22 AM, W1TEF wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:59:12 -0400, "Harold"
wrote:

If you have to muddle through life without cheating once in a while, you'll
never make it. ;-)

Well, I will cop to using a machine to sharpen my wood lathe shaping
tools. Then again, those are set up on a jig to get the angles right.
The cutoff tools I sharpen by hand. I also use a machine to sharpen
my chain saw blades - that task is just annoying as hell and it's
faster to use a machine.

Sharpening a knife via machine just ain't right. :)

How about both. As I have never seen a non-commercial machine do a good
job. Do it with a machine then touch it up manually.

Part of the reason I suspect I have issues is I have manually done this
enough the knife bevels are out.

Ah - well, that means you have to remake the bevel and you do that
with the coarse stone - doesn't take long at all. A few minutes.

Here you go Grasshopper... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYnFL3zCYUY

Thank you master. Missing the coarse stone and the leather strap/stoop.

Made lots of sense.

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