Fw: [Sharpening-jig] Re: Primary bevels with a diamond stone?
David & Cynthia Gilbert
My original note was too large and Google rejected it. Did you get your note
with five pictures?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Cynthia Gilbert" <dpg...@rochester.rr.com>
To: <Sharpen...@googlegroups.com>
Cc: <brent...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Sharpening-jig] Re: Primary bevels with a diamond stone?
> Brent,
>
> I attached some pictures of my jigs. I initially had only two screws to
> hold
> down the plane blade and it worked OK. By adding a center screw it forces
> the cross bar to stay flat. Of course, not all the planes have a slot so
> they can't use it. These were all tapped with 8-32 threads. I think the
> brass will wear even better than the wood and isn't that much harder to
> work. I also made a lower jig for chisels (this is tapped with 1/4-20
> threads). This jig is made out of high density PVC. I haven't used it
> much,
> but with the thicker bar, it seems to hold the chisel very securely. You
> can
> also see the DMT coarse / extra coarse stone that I routed into a piece of
> MDF. I use this with my brass jig. This seems to work very well but it
> probably takes 5-10 minutes per bevel so it is slower than your 60-grit
> but
> I don't think it does as much damage.
>
> I have a couple of co-workers who are very skilled with the internet and I
> will ask them about embedding a spreadsheet into it. I think you can embed
> it so it will open up in Excel on the person's computer. Unfortunately, I
> use computers but don't "do" them. I've joked that if I can't program a
> problem in Excel, then I can't do it anywhere else either.
>
> Today I bought some 6, 3, and 1 micron diamond paste. Garrett Hack likes
> the
> stuff and it actually has his endorsement on the package. By the way he
> looked at one of my planes that I had sharpened with a back bevel and he
> sort of turned up his nose at it. He didn't think they were necessary at
> all. He used the diamond paste to sharpen the entire primary bevel and as
> far as I could tell, didn't put a secondary bevel on the front (or back).
> It's interesting to me that there are so many ways to do things in
> woodworking. He obviously really knew how to plane wood and his system
> really works for him.
>
> I am playing with my new Veritas Bevel-Up Jointer Plane. The lower angle
> blade works wonderfully but does pull up some grain when I go against the
> grain. With it I can plane off 0.001 inch thick shavings. When I switch to
> the 38 degree blade, I can plane successfully but I have to increase the
> shavings thickness up to 3 or 4 thousands which seems pretty thick. Any
> suggestions? Maybe the blade isn't sharp enough.
(I just reshapened this blade with all the front and back bevels and it
works
much better.)
> I'm continuing to practice shapening my blades and just built some new
> 0.060
> and 0.100 wood spacers. I had been using some metal scraps and the wood
> seems better.
>
> I'll keep you posted regarding my progress.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave G
>
>
