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It doesn't matter if you burn the tool's edge.

You'll do it once, maybe twice. Then never again.

When you do burn a edge, you just need to sharpen it again a bit sooner. No big deal. If you...

For anything larger than a jack plane I really think that stoning and scraping is a better method than lapping.

Lapping can work well on small planes. Konrad Sauer does this. However, it can also...

It works so well because of a chemical reaction between the aluminium and the rust - one steals the extra oxygen atom from the other causing the rust to break down. The polish just sweetens the deal...