On Wed, 17 Jun 98 14:34:35 GMT, C.MCBRIDE@l... wrote:

>First, my question: I was following the recent 'in praise of Scary Sharp (tm)'

>thread, and I have to admit that I too have some (lots) difficulty in getting
>that 25 degree bevel, although once I've got it there the results are indeed
>amazing. I say this even though the finest sc paper I can get my hands on is
>1200 grit! Would it make sense to invest in a coarse diamond stone just to
>produce the basic bevel? Ideally I'd like to get my hands on a hand grinder,
but
>these don't seem to be cheap. My planes are OK, but Ive jsut acquired an old
>Sorby firmer chisel which has been ground to an angle of 20 degrees  or so (as

>well as having a slight dip in the centre!) and the prosepct of getting this
>into shape with sc paper alone is not a happy one. Incidentally, although I've

>gone down to 60 grit, this seems to clog very quickly, and I seem to get
better
>results starting off with 100.

You need to get some coarse Alumina-Zirconia belts and move from ScarySharp to
InsanelySharp.  The 3M version is purple (on the back they say that 3M has
trademarked the color purple, believe it or not), but there may be other
brands.
These are VERY aggressive cutting grits.  For heavy-duty work (major
flattening,
setting a new bevel), get something like 50 and 100.  Then you can move to SiC
paper for SS finishing.

>OK, now for the bio. [snip]

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