Somewhat OT question for woodworkers here...

by Paul , Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 11:27 (3916 days ago) @ Hoot

For a standard chisel (that is, not curved or other specialized shape) I picked up a sharpening guide from Grizzly that let's me clamp a chisel or a plane blade and run it on a stone or sandpaper affixed to a flat surface. For the first time ever I was able to get a decent edge on my cheap chisel and plane blades. I've not ventured into attempting to sharpen my cheap chinese chisels that I picked up on sale a while back down here. Just don't do enough chiseling to have fussed with them much. They were sufficiently sharp to do a quick door hinge job that whoever hung the doors on the bathroom at the new church meeting place did not do. But there I just used the regular chisel, not any of angled/curved/etc blades. Anyway for a standard chisel blade I found the Grizzly guide a very handy gizmo to have.