Sharpening Forum?

[Joe Beaulieu]

Hi All,

i am really surprised there is not a separate section of this forum for sharpening. I have as many sharpening questions as I do woodworking questions. I am sure I am not the first to raise this idea.

Just a thought. Thanks

Joe

[ken hatch]

Hi All,

i am really surprised there is not a separate section of this forum for sharpening. I have as many sharpening questions as I do woodworking questions. I am sure I am not the first to raise this idea.

Just a thought. Thanks

Joe

Joe,

Just ask a question and you will soon have a forum .

Try it what's your first question?

ken

[James Pallas]

Hi All,

i am really surprised there is not a separate section of this forum for sharpening. I have as many sharpening questions as I do woodworking questions. I am sure I am not the first to raise this idea.

Just a thought. Thanks

Joe

I triple dog dare you to ask a sharpening question.
Jim

[Nicholas Lawrence]

I think you found it. We just call it the “Neanderthal” forum for some reason.

[Frederick Skelly]

Hi Joe.
You're right, the question has been asked before. Here's the last thread I could find on it. LINK

But as Ken said, just ask your question and a lot of guys will chime in to try and help. (Be warned that it may get contentious, but that's just us.)

Fred

[Keith Outten]

Really, you want to share sharpening threads with the Turners, CNC Operators, General Woodworkers, etc?
One sharpening forum for all?

[William Fretwell]

Nicholas is right. Our Hand tools totally rely on sharpening for the most part, that is inseparable. The people that do it are here, so proudly ask your question......
Not saying we don’t need a back bevel forum.......

[Andrew Hughes]

We should have a list of sharpening experts.
Then take turns to be the sharpening sage of the month.
The sage of the month gets to answer all the questions if someone talks our of their turn they go th ether back of the line.

[Bill Zickel]

I have a small family circular saw blade sharpening business. If I can help in that area, please ask away.

Bill

[Bob Glenn]

Kinda like "what's the best kind of oil?" on a motorcycle forum.

[Rob Luter]

Kinda like "what's the best kind of oil?" on a motorcycle forum.

Or the best guitar strings...

[Bruce Haugen]

Kinda like "what's the best kind of oil?" on a motorcycle forum.

Mobil 1. Or is it Shell Rotella. I forget

[Mike Kreinhop]

I disagree that a new forum on sharpening would require additional sub-forums. I've heard similar comments on other discussion boards when a new category is requested. In my case, the need for nested categories never occured and the discussions flowed nicely.

If enough members are asking for this, why not give it a try and see how it goes? A dedicated forum for all sharpening discussions could be seeded with selected discussions from other areas to get things started. If it doesn't work out, then dump the threads in to the Neanderthal Haven forum.

[Tom M King]

There is a wealth of all kinds of information on sharpening already in this forum. Using the search function should bring up a years worth of reading, if you can manage to wade through all the chest thumping fairly quickly. Any new thread, that asks the same thing that's already been asked hundreds of times, still manages to bring in the chest thumpers, so I'm not sure what the advantage of a new forum would be.

Try asking a question in the search box, and see what comes up as answers to the same question.

[Jim Koepke]

A sharpening forum would need sub forums:

Hand sharpening

Water stones sharpening

Oilstone sharpening

Diamond plate sharpening

Then we would likely end up with forums about sharpening a pocket knife versus sharpening a scythe.

Sharpening saws and the optimum point count for every job.

Then there is the powered sharpening questions over low speed versus high speed.

Flat disk versus wheel sharpening.

So Joe, if you have a question about sharpening, ask it. Then stand back and be ready for the barrage.

jtk