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Adam Sharpening
May 15th, 2005 12:38 AM
I just found a very nice tool sharpening overview book. It's entitled "Success with Sharpening" and its copyright is 2004.

So about all of the current methods of sharpening are covered.

The methods include natural honing stones (oil based Arkansas), manmade oil stones (Carborundum or India), manmade water stones (Japanese), neutral lubrication (ceramic, abrasive paper on glass, diamond).

Grinders are covered in high speed dry, half-speed dry and good old (literally) wet stones.

Methods of final honing are covered well.

My other books concentrate more on specific tool sharpening than the different techniques.

Taunton Press's "Illustrated Guide to Sharpening" and "The Complete Guide to Sharpening" are excellent references. "Woodcarving Tools, Materials & Equipment" - Volume 1 goes into great detail on maintain super keen wood cutting edges (a lot of stropping techniques).
If you can find a copy, the 1974 printing of "Woodshop Tool Maintenance" (one of my college texts) and the 1976 Popular Science, "Home and Workshop Guide to Sharpening" are also excellent fundamental texts on the subject of sharpening.

The older the book, the less varied the sharpening techniques are. Japanese what??? Spray glue sandpaper to glass to flatten the backs???

A good tool can be transformed into a superior tool with the proper sharpening and fine tuning, known as fettling.

Check out the 1989 printing of, "Restoring, Tuning & Using Classic Woodworking Tools". It shows how to take those swap meet finds and turn them into the precision tools a practiced woodworker will eventually come to need and cherish.
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