Thank you all very much for the feedback, I greatly appreciate it
I felt lost when starting, but am slowly figuring things out and it feels great! Using the tools and restoring them gives you a very good idea how they work.
I've honed a couple more of his chisels on the stones and a regular strop and the edges came out very nice. As we know with razors, stropping works and does wonderful things to an edge, I can feel the difference when coming off the strop vs not stropped.
I started off with flattening the back of the chisels first on my DMT and gave them a nicely polished finish and then re-set the bevels. Marking in the edges out of habit and seeing them go from unused (abused) to perfect working condition is a very pleasurable and enjoyable feeling. Sort of my heirloom tools now.
The plane iron gave me a bit of trouble to get that ultra sharp finish on, however I never touched the flat back side until mentioned you could microbevel it on a plane blade, so that seemed to work very well, planes more easily and smoothly now.
I've got some metal polish lying around, I'll have to do an experiment with it, slicing wood like butter sounds mighty fine
Next up are a couple of his saws
Thank y'all :beer1:
It's a wonderful thing to have that many resources and knowledge available these days via the internet, with the books and DVDs, it's simply amazing.