Hard felt wheel for sharpening chisels

I've been using one on a vertical grinder with white compound to put a razor edge on lathe skew chisels. Works very well. Never thought of using it horizontally.

What speed is it spinning at?

Walt C

Been stropping my carving tools on similar for years.

I have a couple of leather, hand made strops that I have charged up with the green compound. Works great.

And I'd be interested in knowing how that setup would work on a chisel with a microbevel. Maybe if the blade edge were immediately adjacent to the edge of the platter it would be more efficient?

Just curious (and ignorant, but want sharp tools)... I just got a grinder and I'm tempted to put a felt wheel on it just to try and I'm thinking a microbevel would prevent the wheel fibers from reaching the tip of the blade. And how much bother would this be compared to just having a strop handy next to the workpiece?

er

It would appear that leather (if I could charge it well enough) would be even better since it is harder and would not seem to have a tendancy to round the edge. I have one cut out to put on my platter (the Veritas knock-off), but when I first got it it was stiff and was not flat (It is a really thick piece of saddle leather). I have soffened it a little, but the smooth side is hard to charge. The more suede side seems very rough--rougher than the felt.

What approach do you use to manually strop a chisel? I would think that the only direction you could use with a chisel would be away from the edge which seems like a hard way to sharpen a chisel.

Sharpening knives seems good with a strop, but I can't see how you can maintain the correct angle easily. I would assume that you have to draw it only 1 way (away from the edge) or you would cut the surface of the leather.

I use this for honing carving chisels (works fine) but not for bench chisels (a leather strop is a lot handier).

Ken Muldrew snipped-for-privacy@ucalgazry.ca (remove all letters after y in the alphabet)

Felt under power is pretty rigid. How you hold and press the tool determines whether or not you round over.

I strop away on leather, just like the barber. Same on felt. As to "microbevels," makes a better edge with stropping, doesn't remove enough material to matter.

No, the microbevel won't prevent stropping or using a felt wheel to further refine the edge.

Dave

I have a piece of belt leather about 8" long glued to a bit of timber. Give it a dose of whiting every now and again and it sharpens chisels beautifully. regards John

Maybe you were answering to this, but I was thinking specifically of when the chisel is being supported by a plate (which my understanding led me to believe was for the purpose of preventing rounding over of the edge while being stropped by the felt wheel...)

Now, do the plate and the inset caused by the microbevel serve to remove the edge from the effective range of the wheel?

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Forget the rest of the bevel. Work out the geometry just for the microbevel. The powered version just works faster.

You're not sharpen> I have a piece of belt leather about 8" long glued to a bit of timber.

( This guy doesn't shave the hairs off his arm, he cuts 'em lengthwise! )

H> I just wondered if anyone uses a hard felt wheel on a grinder with the

Leonard Lee "The Complete Guide to Sharpening" He's got the electron micrographs.

I ordered that last week and the Titless Wonders[1] only today sent me an email saying there'd be a delay.

er

Well, no, but as I recall they only cut off ONE tit, to keep it from getting in the way of a bowstring.