woodworking general (may the grain be with you)

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>>1080709
>to avoid injury with a power tool you have to put your guard down

>>1080709
well it didn't work great

the wheel was fine, but without some kind of gauge it is going to be terribly inaccurate

(it worked great for leather smoothing though)

a leather one will be next

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finished the handles finally, might make them again with a different species just for fun

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Some time ago I made some sharpening wheels too. I come bearing advice.

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I cut them out of MDF originally with a router circle cutting jig. So they were pretty damn round, but not true enough to spin at a couple thousand RPMs. You have to mount them on the grinder and use a gouge to true up the wheels while they spin, as if it were a lathe. Do this very carefully.

I made four of them, three have a flat edge with different grit rouges. I mostly just use the green rouge (finest grit). It keeps knives sharp enough to split hairs down the middle.

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The center hole must be cut so that it makes for a tight fit on the arbor. If it is too big, then you either have to scrap it, or rely on shims. Not ideal.

I also made one with a radius. I thought it would come in handy for recurved blades, but turns out I never use it.

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>>1082775
mine came out just fine, the hole was pretty dead on and it was a tight fit

it probably should be smoothed out more...if holding a file to it won't do enough, I might try making a gouge

I saw a few designs for angle guides, the most simple is literally just a couple L's attached to each other with a beveled piece to match the desired angle