Originally Posted by
Keith Mathewson
I just finished a weeklong carving class with Mary May. she mentioned that if you damage a small #11 you might as will go shopping since they are such a pain to try and sharpen.
After I had read a few replies, The oilstones were great @ creating a 90* perpendicular edge across the end of the tool-from which one could attempt to grind/hone a ~30* bevel.
However, it was too hard to (freehand on oil stone) create a consistent bevel on both sides of the tool. There is no sense of registration on the bevel w such a tiny tool when freehand sharpening.
So, I fired up the Tormek and everything worked out fine. The edge is good nuff for me; magnification showed decent geometry attained w the Tormek following basic prep using oil stones. And you'd be hard pressed to judge whether there was a hollow grind on such a small tool.
David
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