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   derekcohen | Jan 18, 2009 01:16pm | #1

   Why should it not be used on waterstones? That does not make sense. It's like saying "buy this car but don't drive it on bitumen". A large proportion of sharpeners use waterstones.

   I have the small Kell for mortice chisels and use it on waterstones.

   Regards from Perth

   Derek

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   wilburpan | Jan 18, 2009 04:30pm | #2

   Here's the quote from that article on the Richard Kell website. The author says that the Kell guide is great for the Scary Sharp method. Then he says:"For other types of sharpening stones a simple frame would be needed to bring the rollers level with the top surface of the stone; this could simply be a piece of MDF with a rectangular hole cut in it. Although not having the rollers ride on the stone has advantages it has one disadvantage in that in my opinion it makes the guide unsuitable for use with water stones, they wear so quickly and unevenly that any guide used with them needs to ride along the surface of the stone in order to compensate for the wear in the stone."For a mortise chisel, it's probably narrow enough so that the Kell guide will fit on the waterstone itself.

   Edited 1/18/2009 8:32 am ET by wilburpan

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   hamelech | Jan 18, 2009 08:04pm | #3

   Swifty6,

   I use my Kell on a water stone. Usually, it's the last few swipes of 4000, then a microbevel on the 8000.

   Because the Kell's wheels straddle the chisel/iron, there's not a lot of the stone's real estate to work with, and the center stripe of the stone takes the brunt. If I really have to grind on a chisel, I use sand paper on a glass plate to get me where I need.

   Typically, it's my Japanese paring chisels that I chuck into the Kell. The paring chisels have a triangular cross section that doesn't hold well in the Veritas Mk II guide.

   Cheers,

   Seth

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   swifty6 | Jan 18, 2009 09:02pm | #4

   I sent an email to Richard Kell to get his opinion.He said that its no big deal for the rollers to roll on the stone if it will fit. The advantage for the double rollers are they take out the wobble from a single wheel and the top screw device.