Scots Bill
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Hi folks,
Peter has kindly suggested this tip might be of interest to some of you. Before I bought a Jet wet grinder, and it has a leather stropping or honing wheel. I made one. Like I saw many of you had done to go on a face plate.
Well I turned a dovetail recess into a one and a half inch turning blank to fit my Nova chuck. Next I glued a sharpening disc to the trued up face of the wood, nothing new there. but then due to a rapidly expanding belly I had a surplus of leather belts, so I glued one to the rim of the sanding disc as a honing drum. I cut the belt across at an angle so it would not lift at the join. dressed with honing paste or automotive chrome polish is equally effective, it works a treat. A word to the wise, you MUST present the tool in the trailing fashion, otherwise of course a dig in to the leather is a certainty.
For those that used M.D.F. for the disc I understand that the edge of the disc can be dressed with the afore mentioned pastes, or similar, and the fibres take up enough to act as a stropping tool anyway.
I noticed Woody mentioned a piece of plate, or thick glass, I use the stuff of the front of an oven, to lap things, I think we were on planer blades. Ok. but the same idea and I used valve grinding paste, is a good way to flatten a bench sharpening stone that has become dished through not using the complete length of the stone when honing. Sorry for the long windedness. P.S. Got it now Peter, thanks.
Peter has kindly suggested this tip might be of interest to some of you. Before I bought a Jet wet grinder, and it has a leather stropping or honing wheel. I made one. Like I saw many of you had done to go on a face plate.
Well I turned a dovetail recess into a one and a half inch turning blank to fit my Nova chuck. Next I glued a sharpening disc to the trued up face of the wood, nothing new there. but then due to a rapidly expanding belly I had a surplus of leather belts, so I glued one to the rim of the sanding disc as a honing drum. I cut the belt across at an angle so it would not lift at the join. dressed with honing paste or automotive chrome polish is equally effective, it works a treat. A word to the wise, you MUST present the tool in the trailing fashion, otherwise of course a dig in to the leather is a certainty.
For those that used M.D.F. for the disc I understand that the edge of the disc can be dressed with the afore mentioned pastes, or similar, and the fibres take up enough to act as a stropping tool anyway.
I noticed Woody mentioned a piece of plate, or thick glass, I use the stuff of the front of an oven, to lap things, I think we were on planer blades. Ok. but the same idea and I used valve grinding paste, is a good way to flatten a bench sharpening stone that has become dished through not using the complete length of the stone when honing. Sorry for the long windedness. P.S. Got it now Peter, thanks.