Just switched out my planer blades today.
Damn I wish I had done that earlier. I had a feeling my feed problems
might be related.

After seeing the cut after, I'm wondering why I didn't do it earlier.
It's like glass again.

Even though I sharpen my hand plane blades regularly, I avoid the
machines until I have to. The jointer I touch up while still on the
jointer. But the planer ... that's another story. I noticed that the cut
was also off from one side to the other. And that was really getting my
attention.

Plan to bring the blades to Forrest when I drop my saw blade off. I
figure if they sharpen it like my saw blade, I'll be happy.

On 7/2/2012 6:11 PM, tiredofspam wrote:
Just switched out my planer blades today.
Damn I wish I had done that earlier. I had a feeling my feed problems
might be related.

After seeing the cut after, I'm wondering why I didn't do it earlier.
It's like glass again.

Even though I sharpen my hand plane blades regularly, I avoid the
machines until I have to. The jointer I touch up while still on the
jointer. But the planer ... that's another story. I noticed that the cut
was also off from one side to the other. And that was really getting my
attention.

Plan to bring the blades to Forrest when I drop my saw blade off. I
figure if they sharpen it like my saw blade, I'll be happy.


Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?

Yes, they do.

I am going down to drop my saw blade after the holiday. I asked if I
could get a tour of the shop. I always like to see someone elses shop.
You never know what kind of storage or interesting ideas you get.

If they come out as sharp as the saw blades it will be worth the $10 per
blade to sharpen. I did the last one myself and while it came out
excellent as is proof by the cut I am getting, I remember how hard I
struggled to knock down the nick and then size the blade, then hone it.
A big long blade is tougher than a hand held plane iron.

That struggle might be the reason that I put off changing this long this
time. It's always in the back of your mind if you know what I mean.

On 7/3/2012 8:13 AM, Leon wrote:
On 7/2/2012 6:11 PM, tiredofspam wrote:
Just switched out my planer blades today.
Damn I wish I had done that earlier. I had a feeling my feed problems
might be related.

After seeing the cut after, I'm wondering why I didn't do it earlier.
It's like glass again.

Even though I sharpen my hand plane blades regularly, I avoid the
machines until I have to. The jointer I touch up while still on the
jointer. But the planer ... that's another story. I noticed that the cut
was also off from one side to the other. And that was really getting my
attention.

Plan to bring the blades to Forrest when I drop my saw blade off. I
figure if they sharpen it like my saw blade, I'll be happy.


Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?

tiredofspam wrote:


That struggle might be the reason that I put off changing this long
this time. It's always in the back of your mind if you know what I
mean.

Very well! Sometimes it seems we want to do things just to say we could or
did do them. Sort of a pride thing. And... that is not all that bad in and
of itself. Capability is a worthwhile thing. Then again... time to finish
and whatever else we want to call it, in order to simply get a great result
(after we have proven we can do it and put a few more hairs on our
chests....), can be well worth the small amount spent. Too many times, we
insist on doing things the foolishly long-handed way, just so we can say we
did - or even worse... so we can tell people we are "craftsman". Hell - go
for it, and screw the struggle, and just get it done. It's cheap enough.

--

-Mike-

On 7/3/2012 10:19 AM, tiredofspam wrote:
Yes, they do.



Good to know


Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?

Leon wrote:
On 7/3/2012 10:19 AM, tiredofspam wrote:
Yes, they do.



Good to know


Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?



How do you and Swing ever get anything done (such as making a living)?
You do such fine work but you are always online giving advice and
helping us lesser mortals. We appreciate it but I still don't
understand how you do it all.

--
G.W. Ross

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

On 7/3/2012 3:27 PM, G. Ross wrote:
Leon wrote:
On 7/3/2012 10:19 AM, tiredofspam wrote:
Yes, they do.



Good to know


Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?



How do you and Swing ever get anything done (such as making a living)?
You do such fine work but you are always online giving advice and
helping us lesser mortals. We appreciate it but I still don't
understand how you do it all.



Swingman charges a lot. '~)

I retired at 40 and do this mostly for fun although lately I have been
getting more and more work. I don't charge enough but it keeps me as
busy as I want to be. At the moment I am between jobs, Swingman and I
deliver my last pieces yesterday morning.

Basically it helps to be working from home as we both do and we do often
work weekends and later in the evenings and earlier that many get up.

On 7/3/2012 3:27 PM, G. Ross wrote:
Leon wrote:
On 7/3/2012 10:19 AM, tiredofspam wrote:
Yes, they do.



Good to know


Does Forrest sharpen planer knives?



How do you and Swing ever get anything done (such as making a living)?
You do such fine work but you are always online giving advice and
helping us lesser mortals. We appreciate it but I still don't
understand how you do it all.

ROTFL ... note the date. Most of us folks are taking a much needed break.

And besides, since I posted that post before last, I've picked up, then
unloaded, some 8' pipe for pipe clamps, loaded two sheets of plywood in
the truck to be rough cut in the next thirty minutes (gotta wait for
"climate change" to resume sunny!), fixed my shop door where I
accidentally locked it and had to break in, and organized my sandpaper
and ten years worth of jigs.

An easy day, so far ... and the shop door can never be more than 60'
from wheresoever I sit.

And Leon is even closer, unless he's picking up Great Dane poop.

--
www.eWoodShop.com
Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlCaillouet@ (the obvious)
http://gplus.to/eWoodShop

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:27:56 -0400, "G. Ross"
How do you and Swing ever get anything done (such as making a living)?
You do such fine work but you are always online giving advice and
helping us lesser mortals. We appreciate it but I still don't
understand how you do it all.

Nah! They only fake it as woodworkers and home builders. The real
truth it that the were working on a home plot and struck oil. They
managed to buy the plot and now they're closet multi-millionaires.

tiredofspam wrote:
Just switched out my planer blades today.
Damn I wish I had done that earlier. I had a feeling my feed problems
might be related.

After seeing the cut after, I'm wondering why I didn't do it earlier.
It's like glass again.

Even though I sharpen my hand plane blades regularly, I avoid the
machines until I have to. The jointer I touch up while still on the
jointer. But the planer ... that's another story. I noticed that the
cut was also off from one side to the other. And that was really
getting my attention.

Plan to bring the blades to Forrest when I drop my saw blade off. I
figure if they sharpen it like my saw blade, I'll be happy.

Look around. There are blade sharpening services in every city. They usually
service the paper-cutting blades found in print shops, but a planer or
joiner blade is much the same (only smaller).

I take my planer blades to a shop that resharpens blades for commercial
printer's paper cutters. The largest blade they can do is about five feet in
length.

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:00:56 -0500, "HeyBub"
Look around. There are blade sharpening services in every city. They usually
service the paper-cutting blades found in print shops, but a planer or
joiner blade is much the same (only smaller).

Just out of interest's sake, is there much of a cost difference
sharpening spiral planer blades as compared to straight ones? And, is
a specialty sharpening shop needed for them or can most do the job
these days?

"Dave" wrote:

Just out of interest's sake, is there much of a cost difference
sharpening spiral planer blades as compared to straight ones? And,
is
a specialty sharpening shop needed for them or can most do the job
these days?
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SFWIW, my sharpening service uses a Swiss made machine (wonder why
that doesn't surprise me?) that is software controlled.

Specific software data points for a given blade are down loaded from a
library and you are off and running.

Lew