Prashun Patel
05-22-2015, 3:43 PM
This revelation is 5 years in the making. I'm more happy than I am embarrassed. On the OFF chance that someone else is similarly blind to the blatantly obvious, I'm sharing.
I have been moving towards free-hand sharpening and am pretty good at honing. It's the hollow grinding that stymied me. How do you accurately set the angle of the grinding platform? I have the Veritas platform and the angle jig, but every time I'd set it, the darn chisel wouldn't hit in the same location. The gauge doesn't account for the blade thickness . So, I stopped trying, and just set the angle to the middle of the chisel bevel and hoped for the best.
Until I read (thanks, Derek Cohen) that you have to set the angle by placing your gauge on top of the blade.
Of
Course.
I realize it's not perfect unless the gauge accounts for the curve of the wheel, but it's a lot closer than I was before....
I have been moving towards free-hand sharpening and am pretty good at honing. It's the hollow grinding that stymied me. How do you accurately set the angle of the grinding platform? I have the Veritas platform and the angle jig, but every time I'd set it, the darn chisel wouldn't hit in the same location. The gauge doesn't account for the blade thickness . So, I stopped trying, and just set the angle to the middle of the chisel bevel and hoped for the best.
Until I read (thanks, Derek Cohen) that you have to set the angle by placing your gauge on top of the blade.
Of
Course.
I realize it's not perfect unless the gauge accounts for the curve of the wheel, but it's a lot closer than I was before....