Ben Cadotte
06-27-2008, 3:39 PM
I have had my WS3000 for several months now. I have only done hand chisels with it and was totally impressed.
Yesterday when I was playing with my new resaw blade I took a large piece of oak over to the jointer. Since I travel alot, I always check blades to make sure nothing got in the area while I am gone. And I noticed 1 blade had dings at both ends of the blade, and I already knew all 3 of them have some small scores in a couple spots.
I needed to wax the beds and fence so today I spent time on cleaning up the jointer. Anyway I decided since the one blade was chipped I would give it a try and clean it up on my own. Couldn't loose if I had to order new ones anyway. So I took all 3 blades out and made a small blade holder out of a piece of 2x2 scrap I had. I cut it at the propper angle and deep enough to leave the cutting edge up about 1/32".
The 2x2 was 2" shorter than my 6" jointer blades, so I could hold pressure against the blade in the 2x2. I then put on a 120 grit wheel on the Worksharp. And used the 2x2 against the top guide bar. I just ran the blades back and forth across the top of the wheel. Then pulled the blade out of the 2x2 and layed them flat on the wheel to remove the bur. They came out beautiful. I didn't go far enough to try and clean up the 2 chipped ends. But a minute or so on each blade got rid of the small score. And the blades are as sharp as new.
Absolutely a breeze to sharpen the blades on the WS even though they are wider than the wheel. I just stayed with the one grit. The test cuts on the oak after words was great. Nice clean, smooth surface. Shavings were nice and fine. I see no reason why not to touch up jointer blades on the Worksharp. Worked great.
Yesterday when I was playing with my new resaw blade I took a large piece of oak over to the jointer. Since I travel alot, I always check blades to make sure nothing got in the area while I am gone. And I noticed 1 blade had dings at both ends of the blade, and I already knew all 3 of them have some small scores in a couple spots.
I needed to wax the beds and fence so today I spent time on cleaning up the jointer. Anyway I decided since the one blade was chipped I would give it a try and clean it up on my own. Couldn't loose if I had to order new ones anyway. So I took all 3 blades out and made a small blade holder out of a piece of 2x2 scrap I had. I cut it at the propper angle and deep enough to leave the cutting edge up about 1/32".
The 2x2 was 2" shorter than my 6" jointer blades, so I could hold pressure against the blade in the 2x2. I then put on a 120 grit wheel on the Worksharp. And used the 2x2 against the top guide bar. I just ran the blades back and forth across the top of the wheel. Then pulled the blade out of the 2x2 and layed them flat on the wheel to remove the bur. They came out beautiful. I didn't go far enough to try and clean up the 2 chipped ends. But a minute or so on each blade got rid of the small score. And the blades are as sharp as new.
Absolutely a breeze to sharpen the blades on the WS even though they are wider than the wheel. I just stayed with the one grit. The test cuts on the oak after words was great. Nice clean, smooth surface. Shavings were nice and fine. I see no reason why not to touch up jointer blades on the Worksharp. Worked great.