NOooo

[Vulcan]

Not another *Sharpening video! If you’re easily offended probably best hit that back button now. Alternatively if you find YouTube videos like this entertaining then you’ll probably come away unscathed.

*Some reasonable people might include stropping as part of the sharpening process but YMMV. Best mentioned now or someone else will. We probably know who?

 

[Spectric]

if you find YouTube videos like this entertaining

This is the dark side of youtube, I think they are just someone who struggles to accept that in the grand scheme of things they are not even a speck of dust and are trying to disprove this fact on youtube. Has anyone actually looked to see if @Jacob has a youtube video on sharpening ?

 

[Eshmiel]

"Woodwork is such a feminine craft because it needs such a gentle touch".

Ah ha! This is the answer to the strange notions of Jacob, who merely requires a gender change to be able to see and grasp then adopt the nuances of sharpening to a nice un-raggy edge that will take shavings as light as a fairy's wing! We, of course, are already in touch with out feminine side, eh? Well, I am.

 

[Jacob]

This is the dark side of youtube, I think they are just someone who struggles to accept that in the grand scheme of things they are not even a speck of dust and are trying to disprove this fact on youtube.

Seems fairly straight typical modern sharpening
Yes if you must use a grind wheel a large wet one is best.
If you get your basic sharpening sorted and do "a little and often" you will never need a grindstone, you just maintain the same bevel indefinitely.
Worst thing for a novice is a 6" bench grinder which can wreck a blade in seconds, especially a thin Stanley pattern, which is designed to not need a grindstone.
No to flattening the face, except a little when you take off the burr.
Yes to watch out for the burr.
No to using a jig.
No to primary/secondary bevels - just one rounded "under" if you do it the fast easy freehand way.

Has anyone actually looked to see if @Jacob has a youtube video on sharpening ?

No I couldn't find one at all.

 

[Agent_zed]

I generally avoid any woodworking/diy video with a woman in a tight top on the thumbnail. There are plenty of women who know what they are doing who don't need to make it about what they look like, and I have watched their videos and learnt things from them.

I often find it amusing if you look at the amount of views they get. You'll see some old bearded guy video will get 200k views and then there will be some young women in a tanktop stretching across a peice of furniture holding a screwdriver or something, and they have millions of views. Perhaps I'm missing out

 

[Spectric]

Perhaps I'm missing out

On what, these "likes" that they want to collect ! Another mystery is why female singers think they need to be in some state of being undressed to try and sing, again distraction techniques.

No I couldn't find one at all.

So let's have one please.

 

[Jacob]

I generally avoid any woodworking/diy video with a woman in a tight top on the thumbnail. There are plenty of women who know what they are doing who don't need to make it about what they look like, and I have watched their videos and learnt things from them.

I often find it amusing if you look at the amount of views they get. You'll see some old bearded guy video will get 200k views and then there will be some young women in a tanktop stretching across a peice of furniture holding a screwdriver or something, and they have millions of views. Perhaps I'm missing out

Yebbut I don't fancy old beardy geezers!

 

[MikeB1972]

I generally avoid any woodworking/diy video with a woman in a tight top on the thumbnail. There are plenty of women who know what they are doing who don't need to make it about what they look like, and I have watched their videos and learnt things from them.

Well, one of us is using youtube wrong.

 

[Amplidyne]

Oh FFS just sharpen b****y things!
It ain't brain surgery. (Especially if I can do it it ain't!)
I don't mind seeing nubile young women doing stuff either, if they know what they're doing and aren't just there as window dressing that is.

 

[Eshmiel]

Yebbut I don't fancy old beardy geezers!

Ms Zed tells us that all you need to do for millions of views is to put on some tight clothing, with possibly a bare arm and a touch of lippy. Shirly you can manage that! To make sure, why not don some leather chaps held up with bailing twine; and perhaps a black string vest? I'll watch that for a dollar! (Well, perhaps for an old thrupenny bit).

 

[Doug71]

Well I don't mind a bit of Daisy and as sharpening videos go that was much more informative than most.

She actually makes bespoke acoustic guitars which are about £30k each and her order book is always full so not just a pretty face..........

 

[Eshmiel]

Another mystery is why female singers think they need to be in some state of being undressed to try and sing, again distraction techniques.

No mystery - its demanded by the manosphere and supplied by those happy to oblige, for oodles of cash. What's it all distracting from? The awful cacophony of current popular machine-musak perhaps?

It's not just female singers, by the way, that do this. Perhaps these are the only variety you notice, though?

Since its supposedly about the singing, why not make do with the soundtrack, not bothering with the visuals? That's a rhetorical question ...... . Or perhaps not. How many would listen to various current performers of musak if they couldn't at the same time get their visual titillations?

**********
On the other hand, there is an argument that all forms of portraying oneself as primarily a secksobject (unless one is a courtesan or gigolo perhaps) is rather demeaning - to both the portrayer and those portrayed-to. The Welsh choirs have it right - not a secksobject among 'em! But they often sound wonderful.

 

[worker]

Well I don't mind a bit of Daisy and as sharpening videos go that was much more informative than most.

She actually makes bespoke acoustic guitars which are about £30k each and her order book is always full so not just a pretty face..........

She was also featured at a famous auction house (can't remember the name now).

As for sharpening, it's the results that matter, and her technique clearly works for her

 

[DaveCollins]

I am the last person in the world to be labelled as politically correct.... but come on!

Some of the comments here made me squirm with embarrassment.

She can wear what she likes, and if someone thinks that's to get a reaction out of dirty old men, then they probably fall into that category!

There are plenty of men doing similar videos looking "manly", but they don't get criticised.

Maybe some of the people sneering the most just don't like the idea of a young woman who clearly knows what she's doing?

Her looks, shape, age or what she chooses to wear have nothing to do with what she's saying.

 

[Fergie 307]

Wh

Ms Zed tells us that all you need to do for millions of views is to put on some tight clothing, with possibly a bare arm and a touch of lippy. Shirly you can manage that! To make sure, why not don some leather chaps held up with bailing twine; and perhaps a black string vest? I'll watch that for a dollar! (Well, perhaps for an old thrupenny bit).

Whilst I have no idea what Jacob actually looks like, I'm guessing he might need more than a bit of lippy and some hot pants

 

[Fergie 307]

I am the last person in the world to be labelled as politically correct.... but come on!

Some of the comments here made me squirm with embarrassment.

She can wear what she likes, and if someone thinks that's to get a reaction out of dirty old men, then they probably fall into that category!

There are plenty of men doing similar videos looking "manly", but they don't get criticised.

Maybe some of the people sneering the most just don't like the idea of a young woman who clearly knows what she's doing?

Her looks, shape, age or what she chooses to wear have nothing to do with what she's saying.

And having watched the video it can hardly be compared with some of the "hot chicks cut lumber" variety, that have sadly been posted previously on this very forum.
Here is an intelligent and attractive young lady who apparently is rather sought after as a guitar maker, and clearly knows what she is talking about.
Surely we should be happy to see that.

 

[CaptainBudget]

I am the last person in the world to be labelled as politically correct.... but come on!

Some of the comments here made me squirm with embarrassment.

She can wear what she likes, and if someone thinks that's to get a reaction out of dirty old men, then they probably fall into that category!

Agreed, this thread has started wandering into cringy/sketchy territory.

 

[Agent_zed]

I am the last person in the world to be labelled as politically correct.... but come on!

Some of the comments here made me squirm with embarrassment.

She can wear what she likes, and if someone thinks that's to get a reaction out of dirty old men, then they probably fall into that category!

There are plenty of men doing similar videos looking "manly", but they don't get criticised.

Maybe some of the people sneering the most just don't like the idea of a young woman who clearly knows what she's doing?

Her looks, shape, age or what she chooses to wear have nothing to do with what she's saying.

Stumpy nubs never puts out videos where he is posing in a 'manly' way. Pretty much all of his videos are pictures of the workpiece or tool in question. Neither does WorkshopCompanion, unless you are into aprons. Neither does the swedish maker or lincoln street woodworks or any of the other I watch.

I want to know what they are making, not what they look like. If they put a click bait title or image then I don't watch. If the video is a guy in a tight top flexing his guns, I'd call it out just the same and avoid watching that.

 

[Jacob]

There's a good deal of fetishism around cutting tools and sharpening, especially knives! Seems to strike a chord with some.
Maybe they should cool down and take up knitting instead? https://www.thecraftygentleman.net/2015/08/16/the-manly-history-of-knitting/#google_vignette

 

[Fergie 307]

It is strange that there seems to be an inference that somehow the fact that she is attractive makes her less credible.
Would she have more credibility if she looked like Angela Merkel?