How To Make A Grinding Jig
After receiving some questions I decided to make a tutorial on how to make my grinding jig.
How to make a grinding jig. Before you start grinding make sure you have the centre line or two lines close to centre that mark how thick the blade should be once it is ground scribed onto the cutting edge. HelloI made Bench Grinder Tool Sharpening JigThis jig was made for the purpose of tailoring Japanese plane blades but it can be used as a sharpening jig. Everbilt 45 adjustable spring hinge - 1x.
The metal widget with the springs is there just to make sure the work rest the piece of cherry with the c-clamp on top doesnt move around and change the distance of the knife to the wheel. How To Make A Knife Edge Grinding Jig Simple CheapThis video will show you how to make a simple and cheap jig to grin your edge out on your knives. To set the hinge you need to use an hex key wrench to twist the side of the hinge and then insert the small pin when you have twisted as much as possible.
Like the two sides two ends Pre-drilled 1364 to be tapped 14-20. The Cheapest Sharpening Tool RestJig - Shop-made Grinder Tool Rest Retired You can make a tool rest from scraps and a few bolts and wing nuts and use it to aid your sharpening chores hollow grind for chisels and plane irons for example or removing nicks on. Try to make parts that are the same at the same time attached together to make both pieces identical to have a straight jig.
I would have made an instructable out of it but I dont have any pictures of the process and its pretty easy to see how the thing goes together any way. The tighter the better. Because I used the bolts that came with the hinge the bolt end stuck out of the front of the plate.
This bevel is subsequently refined by honing until a satisfactorily sharp edge is created. To grind the convex grind will take some basic math to thin of in advance and calculate the angles and thus the height setting of the bolt to make. 38 - 16 x 2 SS Socket Cap Screw - 1pk.
The purpose of the chisel sharpening jig is to hold the chisel or woodworking tool at the desired angle while grinding or honing. I need to sharpen almost all of my chisels and plane blades so Ive decided to make this simple sharpening jig to streamline and improve the processMore in. Metal angle bracket sturdy - 1x.
