Thread: Simple Advice for Honers in Woodworking

Originally Posted by Bruce

Jimmy,

Good point - even tho' I read the post after the editing. I guess this is one among many reasons they made you a moderator. Hey, are the challenges of moderating anything like walking high steel?

I had a friend, I was told has since shuffled off this mortal coil, who was an iron worker and who worked on all the 50+ floors of the IDS Center in Minneapolis. I asked him once how far he could move a hole with his sleever - he said about half a diameter. Who'd a guess'd it: plastic steel

I have concerns with step ladders

If you can get the point of that spud or that bar in there you can move most of them, before they're cut loose anyway. Afterwards it might take a barrel pin and an 8 pound beater or if it is bad enough a bridge reamer. BTW, still have my tools and my bar was made by Ottowana Tool Co in Ottowana, MN. Best one you could get back in those days.

What did you give up; the double bevel, the 30k? How long have you been in pursuit?

I like to know a bit about what is going on at the crystalline level so I have studied that. All I have is an RS scope so I do not consider myself a scientist of steel edges.

So other than the fact that I really like Carbon steel edged tools and using a straight razor seems perfectly normal to me(even though I was afraid to start for a long time) I wanted to know what my sharpening stones were doing how long it took and what if it were used too much etc. the face told me lots.

I go by feel. The feel of the tool on stone and the feel of the tool in work.

This is an excellent post.

But more importantly, my grandfather played the fiddle, but no one in my family picked it up... Your post made me think about that again. How much would one of your fiddles cost (I need to find a guy to teach me)