It's not going to do well for knives. Something much less expensive and very effective for sharpening a knife is a bench top belt sander. They are anywhere from 40 to 100 dollars and the length of the belt keeps heat build up at a minimum and the belt won't become rounded off like a grinding wheel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:58 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Wood Sharp WS3000
Dale, In your opinion, Could something like the ws-3000 be used to sharpen knives? TNX Larry -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:30 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Wood Sharp WS3000 I have one and I love it. It works very easily for sharpening chisels with a precise angle setting guide. You slide the chisel flat side down up a sort of shoot and the bevel edge comes in contact with the spinning underside of the disk. It will set 20, 25, 30 and 35 degree angles. You can grind a 30 degree face on a chisel then adjust to 35 and polish a micro bevel with the really fine paper. To sharpen something wider it is a sort of free-hand job made easier by a guide bar you can fairly easily estimate the angle you need. Unless you have a big chip to grind out it doesn't take long at all to get a really good edge. I would recommend that you pay the extra for the leather surfaced honing disk so you can put a mirror finish on the edge. I have ground some of the blades of my garden chipper but for that you really want a grinder to remove enough material to remove the sorts of nicks that will acquire and probably for grinding things like lawn mower blades. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Supernaw To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:59 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Wood Sharp WS3000 Some months ago there was a discussion about how well a blind person can use the Wood Sharp to sharpen chissles and plane blade. I can't remember the conclusion. Would someone please refresh my memory or maybe add more to the discussion? I am considering the purchase of the model WS3000. Thanks, Ralph [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 217731463) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=217731463&m=950f91d0b7cf&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=217731463&m=950f91d0b7cf&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=217731463&m=950f91d0b7cf&c=f REMEMBER: Never give out your account information, password, or other personal information over e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
