I've been very happy using the Scary Sharp system, but the steel I'm
using for plane blades (old guillotine paper cutter; automobile leaf
spring) may not be good enough to make a difference.

I wonder if a plane blade sharpened on an 8000x waterstone would be
any better than my scaryshare blades after the first couple of strokes
on wood??

Question: Has anyone who has placed in, say, the top five at the
national planing championships been a scarysharp sharpner?? That
should be good evidence for what works best at this incredible, though
perhaps not "real life", competition.

Jim

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:23:25 +0100, Andy Dingley
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:57:38 -0400, Michael Press
wrote:

Would an 8000x waterstone get me there?

No point going beyond 4000 grit unless the steel is up to it.