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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
There's a thread about sharpening around here somewhere, but I better check to see if it's any good or not.
Edited to add: will go out in shop and draw my "edge" picture and post in the sharpening sticky.
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Bill- Thanks for the drawing, it is the most concise explanation of the 'what' of sharpening I've ever seen.
I put this in it's own thread because there are a few differences in sharpening turning knives/tools/lawnmower blades than field knives. For some I will use a fine mill bastard because the edge doesn't require the fineness of a true honed edge (Lawnmower blades immediately come to mind) and honing a 3/4 double round parting tool is not like sharpening any straight edge, even though the 'basics' are the same but the face shape is completely different with multiple rounded areas that meet to form a 'curved' cutting edge, and scoop knives are a step beyond that - like wrapping the edge of a straight knife in a 1/2 circle...
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Last edited by x SF med; 03-30-2009 at 15:01.
Reason: spelling and typos mostly fixed.
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