On Feb 3, 5:25 pm, Leuf wrote:
On 2 Feb 2007 14:30:06 -0800, "beecrofter"
wrote:



You most likely need to dress the wheel to remove glazed abrasive and
open it up a bit.

I think that did the trick. How often should the wheel need to be
dressed?

-Leuf

It varies quite a bit, but you can see the difference in the amount of
material being removed vs hopw hot it gets as well as the wheel
taking on a glazed shine. A dressing brick is just coarse silicon
carbide, much like a rubbing stone for concrete. Don't breathe the
dust! A good jig for chisels is a piece of pvc pipe rested against
your foot ( or a batten on the floor) with the chisel inside. It's
like having a 6' handle on the chisel and puts an ever so slight
radius on the blade in the process. I use a similar setup with timber
framing slicks.
As for squareing things up, nothing beats a line scribed through a
layer of magic marker ink as a guide.
You also may find that a shorter bevel is more durable than the
factory one. An 8" wheel gives a nice hollow grind and saves on
honing time.

Daily Grind