How To Sharpen A Spokeshave Blade

You may need to sharpen the spokeshave blade quite often for your work to be flawless. Hi paul my experience with spokeshave blades is contradictory to yours. I keep one spokeshave with a blade with a coarser sharpening for the roughing out work.
how to sharpen a spokeshave blade

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The average cast iron spokeshave is a fairly rough affair as it comes from the factory.

How to sharpen a spokeshave blade. Often the spokeshave arrives in a shape that it needs to sharpen even before your first use. Most of the original antique spokeshave blades have a slight side to side curvature or sweep. The yellow paddle is 120 grit. Sharpen the blade the procedure is the same as it is for plane irons but before re installing the blade in the spokeshave take a look at the ramp where it beds.

If you have only one spokeshave then you can simply hone to a more polished level as needed. How to sharpen spokeshave blade. With the simple jig described in. Paul shows how to make a handy holder which helps to hold spokeshave blades securely when sharpening and can also be used in a honing guide if needed.

Ed pirnik cari delahanty. This makes them easy to sharpen and touch up. You can always sharpen it freehand but that is quite a skill to perform and not everyone is an expert. The body of spokeshave blade appears to be flat across but there are exceptions.

The blades used in daves shaves spokeshaves are flat side to side iethey have zero sweep. The more blade is visible the deeper the cut will be. To set the cutting iron depth when sharpening a spokeshave use the two adjusters one at a time to lower or retract the blade until it looks parallel to the sole of the spokeshave when looking along the sole of the spokeshave from the front edge. This is coarse enough for corrective work but for most work this may well be sufficient for establishing a cutting edge too.

How to sharpen a spokeshave honing a dull blade with its short length the spokeshave iron could prove a challenge to resharpen once its performance drops off. I actually taught myself to freehand sharpen on spokeshave blades and built up confidence with them because their short length makes them easier to balance on the bevel there is less weight trying to make the blade fall flat. Although the methods used to sharpen most spokeshaves are like those used to sharpen handplane irons the blades are much smaller and tricky to hold in a conventional honing guidewhen faced with this problem fine woodworking contributor chris gochnour engineered a simple wooden blade holder that mounts easily into any standard honing guide. This will help you get a very sharp edge on.