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   JerryPacMan | May 09, 2008 01:01am | #1

   Forrest Manufacturing in NJ.  It could take up up to 2 weeks to receive the sharpened knives as they only have 1 person doing jointer/planer knives.

    

   Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans .

   "Life is not a success only journey."  Dr. Phil

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   flactem | May 13, 2008 11:03pm | #3

   Thanks Jerry --I was planning to send Forrest my TS blade for sharpening -- didn't realize that they did jointer/planer knives as well!Dave

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   JerryPacMan | May 13, 2008 11:33pm | #4

   I sent Forrest 2 saw blades and a 12.5" planer knife set yesterday.  If I remember I will let you know how long the planer knives take. 

   Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans .

   "Life is not a success only journey."  Dr. Phil

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   carlmccarty | May 09, 2008 01:20am | #2

   I have the makita wet sharpener. Works great!

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   flactem | May 15, 2008 08:25pm | #5

   That's an idea. I have used the fence on the jointer and sandpaper on the bed to sharpen scraper blades at a 45 degree angle -- I could use the same system to work on the knives.

   On the other hand -- I am sending the TS blade to Forrest. . . .

   Thanks,
   Dave

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   JayS | May 16, 2008 08:37pm | #6

   Veritas (lee Valley) also makes a jig which works for jointer knives (about $30.), by holding the blade at a fixed angle while you sharpen against adhesive backed sandpapers on sheet glass.  It takes some practices, ads it is easy to exert more force on the ends of the knive and create a slight camber or curve to the edge of the blade.  I have not used any of the horizontal wheel grinders.  For planer blades I sharpen infrequnetly and just send them out to a local serviec here in Atlanta.

   Jay

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   jimmy | May 18, 2008 07:24pm | #7

   Where in Virginia?  Theres gotta be 50 places in DC area alone....Three wihin 10 minutes of my house.   Jimmy

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   flactem | May 20, 2008 12:01am | #11

   I'm south of Charlottesville (Covesville which is a wide spot in the road to be precise). I'm going to try sharpening the knives myself using the jointer fence to set the angle -- I'll let you guys know how it goes. First though -- I need to put together a magnetic blade setting jig.Dave M.

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   JayS | May 18, 2008 08:14pm | #8

   I'd love to see your design for a better jointer knife sharpening jig.  I make lots of jigs myself for repetitive tasks, but sometimes I feel my limited shop time is better spent building the projects and furniture I want to make, and I've broken down and bought tools or devices I know I could have made myself.

   Jay

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   hardgrunt | May 19, 2008 12:30am | #9

   im new to woodworking from a man with 47 yrs building to me " kid if your going to cut wood forrest is the only game in town new or redo "

    

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   WillGeorge | May 24, 2008 07:45pm | #17

   forrest is the only game in town ?? Not knocking what you like.. We all have our own thoughts..  I have used the Forrest and what I usually use.. The FREUD blades from Italy..  OK so a Chicago child raised in a Italian neighborhood! I for one think the FREUD is as good at a better price... Just me though. I'd say each is a QUALITY blade!

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   Tinkerer3 | May 27, 2008 06:33am | #19

   Are you speaking of the blades, themselves or the sharpening service?  Or both?

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   Boogalee | May 19, 2008 07:46am | #10

   This site will show how to made a jig.

   http://www.superwoodworks.com/Projects/JKnifeJig.htm

   good luck.

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   Neil | May 21, 2008 04:03pm | #12

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   I am curious however if it’s necessary to flatten the back of the jointer / planner knives in a similar fashion to flattening a plane blade?   How about creating a micro bevel? <!----><!---->

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   Boogalee | May 21, 2008 04:54pm | #13

   I would think a flat back would be part of the sharping process.

   I'm not sure about the cicro bevel.

   good luck

    

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   xmike | May 26, 2008 06:12am | #18

   That is WAY cool.  I'm going to make one for my shop.

   Mike D

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   frenchy | May 22, 2008 02:14am | #14

   Flactem

    The best and cheapest sharpening service for planer blades is going to be a printers service.  Printers use what look like planer blades in spreading ink and they must be extremely accurite.   Plus printers use blades so often they have some in rotation all of the time.. they really need to remove as little blade as possible.

     Surprisingly a lot of sawblade sharpening services use printers service type places and simply mark up the service..

     Look in the yellow pages or call any printer in town..

    

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   flactem | May 23, 2008 12:44am | #15

   Wow. Amazing piece of information -- goes to show the value of these discussion boards. I am going to try and sharpen the blades myself -- but if I run into problems I'll try my local printer.Thanks,
   Dave

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   frenchy | May 23, 2008 07:30pm | #16

   Flactem

    I have no doubt that you will be able to achieve something yourself. I bought a Tormex to do so thinking in the time it took me to haul them in I could have saved the cost.

      What I found is that The Vaunted Tormex blades didn't last half as long as the professionally sharpened blades did.. plus I removed twice as much material each time I sharpened them.. That wasn't critical when they were new but became real noticable as I wore out the blades.  Eventually leading to balance problems..

    Granted I went thru 40,000+ bd.ft. of hardwood in a few years so I really used my planer's/jointer  a lot and wore out a lot of sets of blades..