On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 04:12:23 -0500, Silvan wrote:

Dukester wrote:

of the blades. I have Lee's book on sharpening, but can't find anything
on
how you grind the initial bevel? No way I'm trying the bench grinder

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So now I get the initial bevel the same way I do everything else. One
stroke at a time. It's extremely tedious, and takes forever, but there's
almost no opportunity to screw anything up at that speed.

I use a 60 grit belt sander belt, cut open & laying flat on a piece of
glass. Pretty fast, but not as fast as a grinder.

It's tricky. It helps to check with a square against both sides of the iron
or chisel before setting the knob. Make sure both sides are square, then
it pretty much has to be really square. Then tighten the absolute hell out
of the knob. Then be very, very, very, very careful not to skew the
iron/chisel as you work. Even with the knob as tight as humanly possible,
it's still possible to knock it out of alignment with a well-placed fart.

Second the square notion. Combination or machinist square works for me.

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