[Woodcarver] Sharpening

[Joe Dillett]

Hi Darrell,

The ultimate sharpening system with reguard to what? Speed? Cost?
Portability? Safety?

I many respects a stone and leather strop is the ultimate for cost and
portability and safety. The only thing you sacrafice is speed. Most people
are looking for speed and that means a power system. For my power grinding I
use is a cheap 6-inch bench grinder with a soft vitrified 60 grit wheel and
a power buffer I made from an old wet grinder system I had laying around. I
think my system is the ultimate system for me. I thinking there has to be
hundreds of ultimate systems both boughten and homemade.

Joe Dillett
The Carving Shop
645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3
Somonauk, IL. 60552
(815) 498-9290 phone
(815) 498-9249 fax
http://www.thecarvingshop.com
jdillett at thecarvingshop.com
http://www.carvingmagazine.com Carving Magazine web site and Readers Forum
http://community.webshots.com/user/joe_dillett
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Hi gang,

    I will be buying a sharpening system this week or next. HELP PLEASE. I
now sharpen with ceramic stones and hone with a hard felt wheel attached to
my hand drill and use the green compound. I normally only carve in my small
shop and never take the tools anywhere and I do have wooden floors, which
will eliminate any chipping of the tools.
    I have been looking at the Ultimate Sharpening system and the Ultimate
Honing system, both are offered by Woodchips I believe. I do mainly a lot of
the larger type carvings as opposed to the smaller caricatures or pins.
Please give me some input, my budget is only about $200 or so.
Thanks so much,
Darrell

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