I cannot belive there is no sharpeinging category here
You know, if yer sharpening tools yu got yer basic grinder, then maybe another one with green wheels and hard buffing wheels, MDF wheels to do the carving tools, and then you got another set up with a diamond wheel to hone the router bits,and an 8″expandable wheel with honing compounds on it…and that’s not including the wetstones and scarey sharp stuff…
I have so many ‘letric spinning wheels that it’s driving me nuts. . It is possible to mount all the stones, discs, buffers etc on mandrels and just chuck em in the lathe, but is it rational? A dropped grinding wheel ain’t safe to use. do the veritas sharpinning jigs fit into your equation of the solution to my problem,
Any pundits on the sharpening circuit got any words of wisdom. Easily I use 8+ wheels/discs on a regular basis. And I just gotta cut down the real-estate these dedicated machines such up.
And oh ya, it would be nice to have speed control, which my little micro lathe does have….
Eric in Cowtown
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Eric,
Well, I have one double ended mandrel, driven by an electric motor, it has a white wheel on one end, and a grey wheel on the other. The grey wheel comes off to make way for the hard or soft buffing wheel, or the wire wheel, as needed.
Carving tools are (rarely) ground on the white wheel, and kept sharp with slipstones.
The longer I work wood, the less aggressive I get on the grinder. I went thru as many plane irons in my first 5 yrs, as I have in the last twenty.
Ray
woodwork sharpening...
Ray...
thanks for the reply...Ibid for me....
I just wanna work smarter, not harder.
I ain't thinkin I'm gonna get any substative responses to my query,
But I hoped I wood!
Thnks again
Actually, there is a special place for sharpening discussions. It's a white building with a steeple and a rather abstract design on top. It just doesn't show up against the white background. ;-)
Discussions regarding sharpening planes and chisels end up in the Hand Tools section, those relating to gouges and such in the Turning and Carving section.
Personally, I'm still waiting for tips on how to sharpen the woodworker, since I seem to have dulled over the years. ;-)
Aw Ralph,
You're sharper than razor soup!
Ray
special place...
OK, got the point.....Thanks for the pointers....
Sharpen the woodowrker..... a good line...
well, Ralph, that's what I was trying to do...., just couldn't find the place to do it on Taunton, and now there's two places to look, and I will.
I dunno if I will ever get any rational replies to my query, but if you'll assume for a moment that I've had a tad of experience which led to me asking the questions I did. The answers I'm lookin fer likely ain't gonna include "a white building with a steeple and a rather abstract design on top"
Frig, I do enuf woodwork of an eccliastic nature that I've realized that even the priests and pundits who ccommission me ain't ever gonna pay enuf attention to my work process to come up with the answers.
Got any constructive solutions or even constructive comments to offer up?
Ya,, I posted my query to see what got tossed into the collection plate....
Eric
It might help to describe what you're "sharpening" on grinding wheels and why you're using eight of them to do it, Eric.
Note that I used quotes on that to keep the parishioners of the Southern Baptize it in Oil Church and the First Church of the Water Stone happy (not to mention the ceramic crowd and those scary-sharp W/D sandpaper folks).
Personally, I've never considered grinding wheels to be precision instruments, so a string of them on a long shaft would make me pretty nervous at more than just a few RPMs.
Slip Up
Eric you crack me up.... get all dem wheels back on da Harlay n don be mixxin white walls with green walls. Wha in the name of Whild Whild Sports are you a doin in that shop boy? Speeed control, now what wud a feller want with dat anyways.....
AZMO
Set up sharpening shop in the kitchen and save space in the wood shop.
Best to go at the router bits often and very little at a time with a diamond hand hone. Hand held power grinding gets em out of balance. Causes VzIzBzRzAzTzIzOzNz
Oh so Sharp
Roc,
About time you figured out the kitchen is just an extension of the shop... if you read the posts and don't listen to the Missus... Glue ups with Hide Glue, now that would send her over the edge!
Oh So Sharp image.... Is that a twinkle in your eye or are you just glad to see me? ; ) LIke your neoprene, keeps em put and you can keep em wet.
Morgan
send her over the edge
I just read to Queenmasteroftheuniverseandbabybunnytrainer your post.
She said :
Well if she had taken a little longer to get to know me before the big combining of living space happened things could have gone very differently. Oh dear me, very differently indeed !
I must tread lightly here else i and said stuff will go over the edge. Over the edge of the deck.
new game
Over The Edge Sports.... hide glue in the kitchen and Queenmasteroftheuniverseandbabybunnytrainer will be having a sport of it, Just how far can I throw a Roc today anyway...
My Queenmasteroftheuniverseandbabygranddaughtertrainer has issue with me sheding bits of dust, shavings and such from the garage into the kitchen. I have been known to have to clean that floor more than once. I envy those with a detached shop and a mud room!
So how is the Schnow in the Wild Wild West of Colorado. Thinking about a last weekend fling to Grand Junction for my birthday this coming weekend. What burg of Colorado are you in, I grew up in Arvada, went to school in Durango and Ft Collins. One of my best frenz is in GJ so I like to ski there for snits and giggles.
Morgan
Invisible Location of rocs and weather with SEP field
How far can I throw a roc
: )
Weather here is absolutely PERFECT for spring ! Dry roads, lots of snow on the mountain and sunny and fifty degrees !
Aahhh I miss the mud room I had in the old house. Kept me out of trouble and made life so much simpler for an outdoor sort of person. Wet bikes, wet gear, wet me.
I am at the base of Pikes Peak;" purple mountains majesty" and all that. The song was written right here !
Hey did you see this ?:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8574923.stm
Just cloak your problems away(tools and stuff in the kitchen ) !
Not to be confused with the "Somebody Else's Problem Field " from the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy books.
"An SEP," he said, "is something that we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That's what SEP means. Somebody Else's Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot."
The SEP field requires much less energy than a normal invisibility field (a single flashlight battery can run it for over a hundred years) due to the natural propensity of humans to see things as Somebody Else's Problem.
(Until recently ) The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand million, nine hundred and ninety- nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety- nine times out of a billion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.
Wet Bikes, Wet gear, Wet me
Now that is living life large, getting out in it and waiting for it all. Colorado has always been good that way, wait 5 minutes and the weather will change!
My son went to Barnetts Bike school this winter. I drove up and picked him up after class and we went up to BrokenRidge for some skiing. He loved the school, paid for by REI, and he is now a Master Tech. Up to that point I had taught him everything he know about bike wrenching, but I am the grasshoppA now... Nice to have a resource for rebuilding your fork when you need it though.
Have a cousin CSprings and I get out and ride there every so often. Another friend in my life has a house up the road into the hills. Some nice trails up there as well. I come through town I will drop you a note, maybe, just maybe we can lucky and find some wet to play in...
Well if you walk around with a realllly bright light no one will look at so you are invisible as well. Interesting article, wave lengths are interesting indeed. Now when I can buy a cloak and walk around like a Hobbit I got it made. Somehow I think the military will get their hands on it first and us boys won't get toys...
Morgan
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