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A small secondary bevel can be made and re-honed in just a few swipes on some fine sharpening medium. To resharpen the same blunt edge on a large single bevel must surely take longer or, if a machine is used for speed, take a lot more metal to get the edge sharp again. Is that not an unavoidable...

Mr G has banished me already from his club of admirers. I will continue to read his own offerings to the forum, though, attempting to sift his fine experiential knowledge from the other stuff. He has deemed my sarks as "enemy" rather than an attempt to get him to justify his somewhat...

So, when your edge blunts you hone the whole bevel to get the edge sharp again? That must take a while! It would be interesting to read the details of your re-honing and/or resharpening procedure. Are you familiar with the writings of that Brent Beach, by the way? If so, what pearls concerning...

Mr G, As you know everything about everything, in a most certain fashion, I believe you should publish it all here in a Very Long Thread. But hang on! You too are "of the internet" and so, by your own definition must be expressing Bigfooted alien Nessie stuff ... as must we all!! Wot a...

Personally I've never tried sharpening a file with the acid since I keep mine very clean (with a stiff-haired paint brush) and only use them on wood, so they stay sharp. However, despite some rather definite denials above, along the lines of "acid only removes rust & gunk", there are both...

There are various bits of info about the interweb about how to chemically sharpen metal files. As I recall, you dip them in some kind of weak acid for a length of time - until the acid eats enough metal from each blunt serration such that it again comes to a point. Eshmiel

Whilst this is probably true, the slotted screw does have a better look in many traditional styles and designs of furniture. So if a screw is going to show in the piece ..... Moreover, slotted screws - even those of brass, which in practice are the only slotted screws I seem to use - can be...

Consider also a different technology. Belt sander style grinding machines are now also capable of putting on very fine edges by use of Trizact sanding belts, which are aluminium oxide of various grits including extremely fine grits. They are inexpensive, these belts (less than £10) with the...

For me it was Mitzi Gaynor in South Pacific; or Gina Lollobrigida in anything (or even better, nothing). It was just me hormones, newly ris-up at the time. Eshmiel

I can recommend the Sorby having recently bought one, with now the knife sharpening jig, the buffing wheel and several home made jigs. The best price I found was here: https://www.toolsandtimber.co.uk/proedge-sharpening-system-grouped-2983 The Axminster is not only more expensive but so are...

Just so - I know many who turned what was once their pleasurable hobby into a daily grind as bad or worse than any cog-place in a bureaucratic organisation of some sort. Many ended up doing their former hobby work 10% of the time whilst spending the other 90% being a salesman, a VAT & tax clerk...

The stuff in this topic is so very like the stuff in similar on-line places or even pub & dinner table conversations these days - composed of various fashions of mass media opinion with their scuttlebutt repeated like a mental tape recording by various fanboys of those various mass media comics...

Newbies seem to find cutting accurately a much easier task with a Japanese saw than they do with a Western saw. Of course, once the Western saw skills are acquired, both can be used to make accurate cuts. But .... the finer teeth of the Japanese saws often do produce not just a faster cut but a...

I have (and have used a lot in the past) some up-market backsaws from Mike Wenzloff. These are the sort of well-made and well-sharpened saws one sees a lot of in the US market. They certainly work well once you've acquired the necessary skill to use them, which requires practice like everything...

One naturally prefers the thing one made oneself. Such a decision (to make that not another design) is due to a matter of taste, after all ..... but what else? The Veritas version takes rather more making, having rather more parts. But it also has a better form than many Adirondacks I've sat...

Hmmmm. May I recommend a look elsewhere at the Adirondack chairs recently made by another poster, to the Veritas plan. These are somewhat better designed to the human form as well as better on the eye, in that form-follows-function mode. I can recommend them for long sitting or even looking at...

The splines in a mitre can be hidden or not. They can be for decoration as well as strength. The hidden ones are obviously for strength. Mind, so are the show-splines. Smaller mitre joints in a stable environment (where only small changes occur in humidity / moisture content of the wood) won't...

A feature of old-fashioned 5 or 6 year apprenticeships used to be that "the lad" was tasked with a very limited set of jobs at the start, often of the rather tedious and repetitive kind. One motive was to allow more skilled workers to do the skilled rather than the grunt work. But another motive...

That description does make sense as I can visualise the outline if not the details, such as how the threaded thingamajig hooks over the east-west bar in the router. (I have a 10mm round bar through my Dewalt 625 - one of the rods for its fence). I have a similar thing for doing fine fence...

With a 45 degree skew, there surely must be a risk of tip breakage, especially if the bevel is also only 20 or 25 degrees. So far, though, I haven't had a break on mine - although I'm careful to do very little in the way of stabbing cuts but instead use slicing cuts, often pulling the chisel...