tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15574233862281816342024-02-20T02:36:01.070-06:00WeilWorksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16165303148974131900noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557423386228181634.post-88856793435925878982013-01-31T15:11:00.002-06:002013-01-31T15:11:46.444-06:00Sharpening Stone Question<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm about to purchase my first sharpening system (non electron power equipment of course) and need some advise. I've done a bit a searching for different stones/brands and have narrowed it down to a couple different brands. I'll just lay them all out, then go from there.<br />
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Shapton Pro Ceramics (1000, 5000, 8000) = $272ish<br />
Sigma Power Select II (1000, 3000, 10000) = $240ish<br />
Bester/Imanishi Ceramic (1000, 4000, 8000) = $186ish<br />
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Shapton's are highly recommended from several woodworkers/bloggers that I follow, but the price is what's holding me back from jumping on the bandwagon.<br />
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Sigma Power Select II, I've heard these are great stones that cut amazingly fast but wear pretty quickly because of they cut so quickly. I'm kinda leaning away from this type because of that fact.<br />
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Bester/Imanishi is carried by a couple different suppliers I am familiar with, but I don't personally know of any in the "wild", so to speak. Does anyone reading this have any or know anyone who does? According to the write-ups provided by the suppliers, they cut quite fast (much faster then Norton & other commonly available water stones). Bester/Imanishi Ceramics are also said to have equally high wear-resistance, very similar to stones that are much harder. This seems to be a good middle ground in many regards, cutting speed, wear-resistance, & price point.<br />
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Sigma and Bester both have a courser stone (240 @ $55ish / 700 @ $45ish respectfully). I really would like to get one or the other of these someday soon, because I know that I will have to re-establish a bevel angle, correct a chipped edge and/or fix a dropped blade someday.<br />
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Jumping to the crazy end of the finish scale, I also would like to getting 1 or 2 polishing stones (in the distant future). Shapton makes Glass Stones that look really nice (but again I don't know of any in the "wild". Do you?). The grits I would probably get are 16,000 @ $130ish and/or the 30,000 @ $360ish.<br />
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As for stone flattening I am still on the fence between getting the Atoma Diamond Plate 400 for $100ish or the DMT DiaSharp 220 stone for $92. I know a couple folks who have the Atome and swear by it. On the other hand, I don't know anyone with the DMT DiaSharp Stone. Because of the similar price and the fact that both seem to be really high quality, I can't really make up my mind.<br />
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One product line that I will not be buying into is the Diamond Bench Stones (you know, the ones with the yellow plastic substrate). I've actually used these before, but I don't have the best of memories of those. I'm not sure how old they were or how they were kept or stored, but they were NOT flat. I'm sure they were fine when they were first purchased. I just don't want to invest a very large chunk of money into products that can/will warp or twist over time.<br />
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**So, have you had an experience any of these brands or specific items, PLEASE let me know as soon as possible. I'm planning on making purchases early next month (Feb 2013).**<br />
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If I go with the least expensive set, the total for this group of purchases will be $278ish before tax & shipping. If I were to get the most expensive options of everything that I current want to get, the total would be $917ish. DANG! that's a lot of money.<br />
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Oh yeah, the suppliers that I'm looking at right now are:<br />
<a href="http://www.leevalley.com/">www.leevalley.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.woodcraft.com/">www.woodcraft.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hidatool.com/">www.hidatool.com</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16165303148974131900noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557423386228181634.post-71637767846360213972013-01-03T14:51:00.000-06:002013-01-05T15:12:00.666-06:00Book Library <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's what I have for a library. Almost all the books have been gifts to me, so I've really spent very little of my own money on all of these. THANK YOU FAMILY AND FRIENDS!<br />
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Eventually I hope to have info & links with each photo but I just wanted to get this up for now. By then I'll probably make this a tab at the top of my page so people can find it easier.<br />
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If you have any questions or comments, please send them my way.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16165303148974131900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557423386228181634.post-24988243781505028092012-12-08T21:16:00.003-06:002012-12-08T21:28:02.746-06:00Book Library & Term Reference?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thank you all for your views and comments, they are very encouraging.<br />
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Soon I hope to post my library of woodworking books. These are what I have been gleaning a lot of knowledge from. I'll probably make it a tab at the top of the page, so myself and others can easily reference it. I plan on taking pics of the books and posting them that way. This will be a trial by fire in posting photos with captioning, so this could be interesting.<br />
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Of course blogs have also been a huge influence. I would love to share what the 60+ blogs are that I try to follow but I don't know how to do that efficiently. I'm mostly looking for a way to share them without hand typing them all in and adding in link for each (yea that would suck). if anyone knows how to do this with Google Blogger, PLEASE let me know!<br />
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I've also thought about trying to compile a list of woodworking terms and the Japanese word(s) equivalent. I am not proclaiming that I have instantly become fluent in Japanese nor mastered any form of the craft of woodworking, far eastern or western. It is just me trying to compile terms that us english speaking woodworkers would (for some reason) want to know what a term is in Japanese. I'm not sure how I'm going to do this. I was thinking of doing this as a link to a Google Drive file but I don't want to have to make 2 or 3 mouse clicks to get to this, so I might have to constantly edit that post every now and then as I continue to come across them. If anyone has suggestions for this too, please send them my way. But would anyone even want to have access to something like this? Let me know in the comment section below.<br />
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Also, I may not be posting very much for some time. I desperately need to finish my thesis from grad school. It has been a year and a half since I finished the program but I never did complete the paper. Now I have to early summer to be done for good, but my wonderful wife wants me to finish before winter is out (EEKKK!)<br />
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Until next time.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16165303148974131900noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557423386228181634.post-6964794553652846852012-11-23T14:32:00.000-06:002012-11-23T14:32:57.750-06:00First blog post EVER!Well not the first blog post to ever happen, just my first post ever.<br />
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My hope is that this will be a place where I post things that really interest me. Most of the time they will be woodworking oriented, but I'm definitely not going to limit entries to that. I'm very interested in design, house building sciences, photography, technology, plus many other things.<br />
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In regards to woodworking, I'm mostly interested in handwork, start to finish. Yes I know I'm crazy. Don't worry it gets weirder, I am hoping to use as much Japanese style tools and methods as I can. So far, I've been trying to gaining as much knowledge as I can. But this alone is turning out to be quite the challenge for a white guy originally from Upstate New York, now living in he heart of Cajun country of southern Louisiana, who also can't speak or read a lick of Japanese (definitely an uphill battle). So books and blogs in English are really the only sources I have so far. In future posts I plan to share the contents of my library. <br />
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To those who have noticed, I've been using future tense. That's because I presently don't have a handtool shop. I do have an shed that I hope to insulate, power (for AC 8/9 months of the year, a little heat during the winter and some lights of course), then eventually fill with tools and wood to start building things. I've posted some of what I presently have on my Google+ page but I'll post more here. <br />
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So I plan on posting here as my interest is peeked by different things, make progress or have questions in building a functioning workshop. Though I intend this blog to a place where I post about some of the things above, I have been given this passion, knowledge and abilities by my Creator, Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so I will not be filtering my relationship with Him out. If I end up not having any followers or even make unfriendly connections because of that, so be it. If you are so easily offended by my relationship with my Lord, then you got some issues to figure out. <br />
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I think this is enough for the first post. So if anyone wants to contact me, please feel free to use Google+, Twitter, or email. But please comment on posts, they will definitely help me stay motivated to keep writing more here. <br />
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Hmm, I gonna need a closing catch phrase. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16165303148974131900noreply@blogger.com8