Originally Posted by
Trevor Goodwin
Patrick, you have so many stones and so many overlap. I know most woodworkers have a lot more stuff than they need, but that's a whole new level, your wife must be very tolerant!
Something I didn't get from that vid is how he gets his irons square in the first place? He hones freehand so how does that make things square if they aren't already.
I'm just getting into power sharpening with my Tormek clone and have been hollow-grinding all my tools, getting rid of the ugly convex bevels Paul Sellers advocates. My trick to getting squareness is to not rely on the jigs or the wheel, when using the "square"-edge jig I micro-adjust adjust chisels/irons with a hammer or hand pressure until I'm getting a square grind. This eliminates sloppy tolerances in the support arm and jig, account for deflection of the arm, and account for the wheel being out of true. Sometimes I get high/low spots on the edge of a tool, but this disappears when I start honing on water stones which are maintained flat. Even after all the care I take I sometimes end up with a plane iron or chisel that isn't quite square, but it's never enough to worry about and for planes as long as you can get the edge of the chip-breaker parallel to the blade edge it doesn't matter.