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Thank you Warren

Thank you very much John!

Thank you John McCrea

I will do it. I will. Just I have to ensure there's no nephew running around. If they push me in the
wrong moment I have to rely on my second left or right carotid

I was...

Thumbs up to Nature that doesn't follow our strict categories and cliches and that shows a fair bit of "free will".
By the way Nature will take back our dictatorship upon the world. Just give her...

thank you for the reading!

Thank you Jim,

Your help is always appreciated and (well balanced ... :))

Cheers,
Haitham

Interesting, never thought about not smooth stones leaving serrations. Anyway a valuable translucent is perfectly smooth. One can still use one side for razor and the other for knives and gouges.
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Hello everybody,

Do you think this would be a good deal?
https://www.tauntonstore.com/2023-fine-woodworking-archive-downloadable-version?search=fine%20woodworking&description=1

Thank you...

Charles, I agree with you. I shoot most of my boards just clamped in the vise and freehand. I enjoy it because there's a skill involved in it. I don't have problems also shooting end grain of 2...

Thank you Jim for you advice.

Regards,
Haitham

Hi Jim,

I'm just about to pull the trigger for a wide one. I've already asked this question in the forum but I would like
to know your take on this.
If it was you, would you buy the 10 or 12...

Thank you john.

I see that Tiers-Issard guys use the normal split leather on a piece of wood wiht chromium oxide on it.
I would like to buy a hooked hanging strop instead and use it with some...

Hello,

If it can help lastly I've spoken with Deneb of Lie Nielsen Toolworks and he uses Fore Plane no.6 for Shooting.
Another simpler way of shooting, that I've seen making by Schwarz is to...

I bought a couple of books on the subject.

Interesting thing about the straight razors (that I didn't know before) is that the blade (nowadays) is hollowed and the spine is in a proportion in...

I wanted to revive this thread sharing some important feedback I received from Kim Kirschman of Dan's Whetstone

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My Email to them
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Hello,

Don't know if I can write here. I'll try. If I'm wrong don't hesitate to correct me.
I have some experience with sharpening (some years ... not much ... but I'm not a novice)
I bought a...

Thank you all ^^

Thank you Rafael

Nice little document there. I love them. Call me Romantic ^^

Luckily they stopped using whale oil. Unfortunately we're still depaupering mother earth for our petrol based...

I migh go a bit off topic but I would like to ask you two questions:

1. First, as I understood if i use them often it's not a problem but if I there's a period that I know I'm not gonna use them I...

Stew .... thank you so much for sharing your experience.
Warren ... what do you men by made synthetically. Are they not still derivate of hydrocarbures?

Yes 3-in-one has a smell to it (for me a...

No i didn't get it, I bought them from Leevalley.

On Leevalley they call the hard black extra fine but on dan's they call it ultra fine. I don't understand anything. I just rely on
my feeling...

Thank you Warren. Invaluable help.

Thank you!

Carroll

I see your sequence. You put some oil stones at the start, then coticule at the end. Does that mean that you use the coticule with oil? Just a curiosity
Thank you everybody. When I relax...

Dear Edward,

With all the respect with your help and your listening to my doubts, I don't agree with either your assertions.

1. Being my set of knives hand or not hand forged it doesn't matter...