Demo Night: Sharpening Options

Video - May 29, 2008

This is a long clip from our new website feature, Demo Night. The topic was sharpening options. This live, interactive demo took place on our Wood Whisperer Live page. Everyone seemed to enjoy the new format and it looks like we will make this a regular feature. Check our TWW Calendar for upcoming demos. Obviously the audio and video are not up to the normal show quality, but this is the best we can do. Enjoy!

Discussion

Bart Trainer ( daddyO) May 29, 2008 6:32 pm

Hey Marc is it me or is something wrong with the clip from demo night? I went to play it and got chris S and you talking. Let me know thanks

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Germain May 29, 2008 6:52 pm

Spiffy demo, Marc. Now I’d like to see “Blade 2: The Sequel”. In this adventure, you break out those tools you have yet to try. You can demo the diamond stones and the Veritas sharpening jig.

Also, FWW recently did a story about sharpening on a standard grinder. It would be great if you could demonstrate that method to show how well it works. I’d much rather watch you trash one of your own chisels than trash one of mine.

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Quiglag May 29, 2008 11:51 pm

I was at Harbor Freight the other day, and discovered that they too have a wet stone grinder system like the Tormek/Jet. Probably like any other Harbor Freight power tool, it will sound like it is going to die, but it will do its job. At a cost of $100 it is hard to pass up. I kind of wish I didn’t buy a Norton water stone kit.

http://www.harborfreight.com/c.....mber=95236

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thewoodwhisperer May 30, 2008 1:30 am

Sorry about the issues with the Flash version. Blip.tv is crapping out on me so bear with me until then. For now, if you have a good internet connection, you can right click on the download links and download the video directly to your computer for viewing. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Richard Armstron May 30, 2008 9:17 am

HI Marc
I am also having difficulty with the clip.
I cannot open it after I download it.
Is there a player I need other than windows media?

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thewoodwhisperer May 30, 2008 9:26 am

Hey Richard. The downloadable version will require Apple Quicktime to play. They are .mp4 files.

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Richard Armstron May 30, 2008 9:49 am

sorry Marc
That didnt work either
“Cant open the file because of unknown error”
:-(

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thewoodwhisperer May 30, 2008 11:00 am

Ok guys. Looks like the flash version is working now. Let me know if there continues to be issues. Thanks!

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Greg July 5, 2012 8:55 am

i’m always late to the game but to flatten my water stones i use sand paper on a piece of granite to flatten them.

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- Joe Allison December 14, 2012 2:37 pm
  
  Second the sandpaper/tile option on the waterstones… I think the main goal is to remove dips/peaks, and you just need a flat reference surface for that.
  
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Joe Allison December 14, 2012 2:38 pm

Hey Mark,

Did you ever start using the mk.ii honing guide? I need to upgrade mine, and I’ll buy it if you’re sellin’!

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- thewoodwhisperer December 14, 2012 3:13 pm
  
  Use it all the time. You can’t have it. :)
  
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Ben January 14, 2013 12:04 pm

Hi Marc
would the new glass shapton stones be ok for sharpening tools? The older or taditional stones are the ones you demo but the newer glass stones are readily available for me. Any thoughts on the new glass stones?

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- thewoodwhisperer January 14, 2013 2:16 pm
  
  I think the new glass stones are just as capable as the old ones. If I broke one of mine today, I’d replace it with the glass version.
  
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Al Forte (kilroy) October 18, 2014 12:05 pm

I want to say that being a newbie at wood working I found the episode on sharpening very motivating and an awesome learning experience,. I had an old chisel that for years I had beat up, and honestly it was not very sharp. I took a piece of tile and some 400 grit wet dry emery cloth and got to town sharpening it. I must admit it turned out very sharp and even shaved me (on my .arm) even I only used that one grit. THANKS if anything it motivated me to try something new.

-Al

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Demo Night: Sharpening Options

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