How to sharpen planer blades by hand. Removing the blade nicks. Norton india cobination stone size 8 x 2. Learning how to sharpen wood planer blades can help you save up on costs of regularly disposing and replacing knives. Sharpen dewalt dw733 planer blades.
Lets start with the hand sharpening machine tools as we can get them quickly and they are fast accurate and save a lot of time. This method works just as well on other mediums such. Fast and easy way to sharpen jointer and planer knives william ng. Thickness planer blades sharpening jig for restoring dull blades.
This has a grey coarse side and an orangey brown fine side. While the manufacturer of a planer designs the knives with an intention to dispose and replace once they lose their edge you can always re sharpen them. How to sharpen a handplane. When making this sharpening jig its important to make the slots at the correct angle so the bevels of the blades lay perfectly horizontal.
In this article i am going to show you some useful ways to sharpen planer blades. Also we can use grit papers to sharpen the knives. There are many ideas available for using a high speed grinder or sharpening jigs. The steel is too hard and too much material had to be removed for the stone to make much of a difference within a reasonable amount of time spent sharpening.
This way the sandpaper will have even contact. Hand sharpening jointer knives i have in the past tried resharpening jointer knives on a stone by hand but without much luck. Besides it is convenient and saves you the time of going to the store to buy a new one or waiting for delivery. A planer blade is a woodworking tool used to create a seamless planed surfaces on the wood.
Oil your whetstone using tapping oil. Ive tried several different shop made sharpening jigs for my jointer and planer knives but this one has proved the simplest to use and make. This instructable will guide you through sharpening a handplane. If there are nicks in the blade they need to be removed using the coarse side of the whetstone using a pushing motion unlike hand planeronce the nicks are removed move the planer blade across your whetstone while applying pressure where the blade is.
A plane uses muscle power to ensure that the cutting blade works as desired and as such there is a need to understand how to sharpen the blade.