Originally Posted by
Richard Line
About a year back I rehabbed a drawknife that was in worst condition (no handles, lots of pitting except near cutting edge, some bending). For sharpening 2 things worked well for me. 1st to get close to descent surface in the working part of the blade, I used a belt sander clamped down on a work stand with 80 grit belt. That was a lot easier than it sounds the handles out on the side really help control the blade alignment with the belt. 2nd, I put my diamond stones on a piece of 4x4 to raise them up off the work surface and clamped one end down, using the rest of the stone's length was easy with that narrow blade width. Able to work the whole length and width of both sides of the blade area. Again the handle horns(?) allowed good control of the blade on the stones. To a great degree worked the blade along its length rather than in the cutting direction of blade.