Strongly recommend the Scary Sharp method. It works!

Maybe not the first or second time, but after you get used to it, you get
really sharp edges. Amazing what sharp tools can do.

Also--once they are sharp, a quick trip to a hard felt buffing wheel with
white compound on it will redo an edge for a while! But not forever.

Old Guy
Who is happily using his sharp planes and chisels to build drawers.


"trs80" wrote in message
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is there online somewhere a good tutorial on how to sharpen and maintain
chisels and block plane knifes? Also instruction on how to restore
chisles that have really banged up edges? Im needing to use blockplane
more and should sharped the blade.

I caught the end of the program on the DIY channel where he used 4 wet
stones to sharpen a block plane knife but not the entire thing. He would
take paper thin shavings off the edge of wood after sharpened. I have a
water wheel thing with single stone wheel in water well (I guess Tormek
like) that I inherited but not sure its the right thing to use by itself
as the wet stone approach on the DIY used 4 different stones.

Id probably only need to sharpen infrequently like once every 2-3 months
as its a weekend hobby thing.
Any thoughts appreciated.

thanks