Charlie James

Roger, the dots are not made for a jointer for sure, they are fragile and thin. After you glue them, just a little proud, you can sand them and using progressive sheets of sandpaper can bring them back to a high luster.

I have been in commercial shops that have a full length piece of laminate held up with shop made legs. Of course they have plenty of room. That’s when it really becomes a “table” saw…

I agree, great tool to have.

Can I have your new system instead?

I’d rather use my stones for all my edges, I feel I get a better edge that way. Just personal preference and I can get an edge very quickly with my stones, no reason to get my worksharp out.

I lap all my tools with the worksharp but still sharpen all my edges with stones. I have extra plane blades as well as extra scrapers. If I’m in the middle of a project I’ll use them all before I go to the stones…

Bill, same one, work sharp. Took me a few years to work myself up to getting past wanting to do it all by hand. Mike Daum brought one to one of my Saturday sharpening workshops and I bought one from Bob that day…

Lapping the back of the blades is the hardest part of sharpening. I use the machine now, better than spending hours at the stone. I use the stones for the edge and finish with the leather strop. I find it makes all the difference and saves time between sharpening as well. When the chisel or plane edge gets a little dull I use the strop to bring the edge back for a little more use.

Bill, I have a few old record shoulder planes that were given to me, some of the best presents I’ve gotten. The blades are really old so there’s no cryogenic’s involved. They stay sharp a long time but there’s no abuse either, I’m only taking small shavings, cleaning things up. I don’t think there’s a need to spend extra. It can take quite a bit more effort to sharpen the harder it is so take that into account. As far as toothing planes, unfortunately there’s only about a half dozen users on this website, we gotta keep it interesting….I’d check lie-nelson for feel as well, there quality is hard to beat! Enjoy…

I put my nose to the grindstone once. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be!