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I finally stopped sharpening my chisels wrong after watching a 72 year old carpenter at the flea market
He showed me how I was grinding too steep an angle and taking off way too much metal, and after I tried his method on an old beat up chisel from my shed, it cut clean through oak like butter; has anyone else been over sharpening their tools without realizing it?
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rileyl9813h agoMost Upvoted
Yeah @spencer_chen6 that old timer trick totally changed how I sharpen too.
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spencer_chen614h ago
Oh man, I had a buddy who swore he knew how to sharpen his plane irons until he let an old timer borrow his tools for a job. The guy came back and showed him how his angles were all wrong and he was taking off way too much metal each time. After that one lesson his planes started cutting like new and he never went back to his old way.
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