How to get a DEADLY SHARP edge on a CHISEL
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- In this video, I'll be showing you my personal workflow when it comes to sharpening chisels. This is how I keep my edges constantly, sharp, accurate and repeatable with minimal effort.
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i don't use JIG's or Guide i sharp my chisel or plane blades by hand
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It doesn't say a lot about my subconscious that i glanced at the first comment and thought it said "How to make a prostitution shop" But please feel free to do a tutorial...
Amazed at the differences in terminology across different disciplines - when i was a young skinny tool and cutter grinder, the first bevel off the edge was the primary, the second was the secondary and the third was the tertiary. What he terms as the primary we were taught was the hollow grind.
Having declared my dissatisfaction with this sharpener last night th-cam.com/users/postUgkxDcr-y2Pf6xdnrFHrSP7dl9kpKaCozcSQ I thought about the problem some more. It occurred to me that I might be undoing each attempt at achieving a sharp edge by the repeated attempts. So, I tried to clean up the unsatisfactory result by honing with only positions 3 and 4.Miracle!! A really nicely sharpened chef's knife, more than enough to handle my needs. Admittedly, it did not reach professionally sharpened razor-fineness, but it is now significantly sharper than it was. A bout of breaking down carrots convinced me. So, major apologies to the manufacturer, Amazon, and all happy and potential owners! Follow the directions: don't buy it if you have ceramic blades; and don't overwork your knife blade.
I just started learning woodwork in school and i have to say, your videos are amazing and they helped me a lot with my grades. Love from Germany
The BEST and most informative (in my opinion) sharpening videos on the net. Thanks Matt
This is a great tutorial, I have been wood turning for a while but would like to get into more woodworking. I have just followed these instructions with a new set of chisels to put the secondary bevel on them it works like a dream. Will definitely be watching more videos from Matt
Thank you Matt! After my Dad passed away my brothers divided many of his tools between them. Never once did it cross their mind that I might need them; that I had used them in his shop or borrowed them and that some of the tools were mine that he had borrowed. I got back my tools after a great deal of arguing; plus my Mom stepped in and said your Dad borrowed that or bought it for her as a gift. Since I had to purchase many large tools over the last few years since his shop is now used for automotive work, and we all know tools are not cheap so I have quite a few projects that have been put off. Needless to say I kept quiet about the hand tools that my Dad had loaned me or we had used on a project and he had left them behind for my finishing the project. So I have his amazing array of chisels and I tested them and found that they needed sharpening badly. I was going to bring them to a local shop but after watching this video I'm going to watch your video about sharpening stones. I'm making sure that all of my tools are ready and in the best shape before I begin my first project since his death which involves a lot of fine carpentry. It will be hard without my Dad to turn to for advice but you and your videos will partially fill the void. You are a bit young to fill in for my Dad but he would have found your skills impressive and he was hard to impress. Thank you again for all the videos that many other "experts" don't bother to make. When time has passed without working with wood we all need a refresher course or even more importantly if you are a beginner. Thank you again for remembering we are out here and thirsting for knowledge.
That was a emotional response, my dad has passed also, your father would be proud to know that you are continuing his work
Thank you for this video. I just got a good whetstone and sharpened my first ever set of chisels. I had watched this video a while ago knowing that I'd need the knowledge later. It really helped tremendously. I now have a set of chisels that are ridiculously sharp. Thank you!
Matt,
Thank you for your tutorials (all of them).
I have been interested in woodworking/furniture making for a couple years now and your videos and delivery of the information are leading me down the path to putting together my own hobby area.
Keep doing what you are doing and I look forward to more from you in the future.
I have a Tormek and have always just used it for the whole job, I have just tried your method and it worked very well and the secondary bevel operation was very quick. Thankyou.
You really know your craft and an excellent teacher. I love the tips and tricks which shows your attention to detail. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I never knew so much could be accomplished with just hand tools. You have really encouraged this 73 year old to study this more.
This series of videos is really, really good. Lots of info presented in an accessible style and in good length chunks. I'm almost tempted to take back early leg pulls. Almost ;-)
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Nice 'matter of fact' tutorial. First time I have ever heard cross contamination of stones mentioned! - well done for that little detail 👍👍
Just found this channel and i've got to say its just brilliant! Im also going to Rycotewood in Oxford this September! Can't wait!
"keep your shizels sharp"
i kinda like this, it's gonna be my shop motto from now on.
Shizels charp.
Should be on a T shirt !
Your videos are fantastic Matt. No nonsense, great instruction. Thanks
Im very thankfull for your explanations, got recently the stuff, learning to use it. Greetings from Argentina!
Planning end grain on walnut went amazingly pleasant thanks to you advices ! Thank you !
Great tutorial. I particularly enjoyed the “good grounding” pun.
That is the best looking workbench I've seen. Subbed for that. Now I'll watch the vid.
I love sharpening...it's such a Zen process!!!
Your channel is a priceless treasure of help; thank you so much!
Thank you Matt for the best demo I've seen regarding sharpening chisels.
thank you Matt for sharing this skill.
As always, concise and clear. Thanks a lot!
Dude you are the best! All your vids are great and super informative. Just made my first protrusion stop and man are my chisels sharp Af! Keep up the great work and vids!!!!
Hi not a regular poster here but wanted to thank you for the terrific explanation of the sharpening process. Have a gr8 holiday
Another outstanding video Matt! I'm both enjoying watching and learning skills with each new post! Keep up the great work. - Diane, Florida, USA
That's what I like to hear Diane! Thank you!
Thank you, You answered questions I didn't even know I had. Classic case not knowing enough to ask questions.
Brilliant video...I have a heap of 2nd hand chisels that are going to be sharpened up nicely now...great stuff and thanks for sharing your expertise.
Good luck Stewart! Drop me a direct message on Facebook or Instagram if you have any other questions!
I have an old Craftsman wet stone sharpener I bought it at a flea mkt years ago for $10.00 works great.
Whet stone.
It needn’t be wet.
Thanks very clear and stressing the main points well done
If you have a primary edge that damaged and you need to grind quite a lot, you might need to check the grinding angle and adjust it a couple of times during the process.
As the material is grind away, the chisels angle against the stone will change.
Iv'e been a woodworker for 40 yrs!
I am still humble enough to watch vids like this and still learn a thing or two!
Nice vid chap!
The only thing I would add is, don't shave your wrist to check a chisels sharpness!
Or you will end up like me with a tuft of long hairs where I use to shave with it... lol
You pretty well know when your chisel is super sharp!
Anyway, I think for young and old just coming into the finer points of woodworking this
is a good tutorial on sharpening chisels!
Those that are serious about their work will want to save up, and buy this equipment!
Nice vid Matt!
Frank...
PS... I'm retired now... but still potter in my workshop!
Frank James one dies not call oneself "humble", since, you know, that's not a very humble move to do so...
Not sure what you mean really...
But, what I mean, is that, even after 40yrs woodworking, I am still willing to learn
a new trick or two! Which I have!
I have also, over the years, perfected a trick or two myself.
Itake it, your also a woodworker Patrick
I have one spot I always shave chisel /plane blades with ... the top right hand side of my wrist , never a problem if you shave against the grain of the hair . Never shave with the lay of the hair ... there will be blood.
Master, i have a doubt i have read that you have to sharp for 25, 30 & 35 degrees. What do you recomend for general porpouse chisel in hardwood?
Andrei Charpentier Quesada I am not master but this grasshopper would suggest 25 for hardwood 30 + for softwood . You will know what works for you . Good luck on your journey .
It is, ironically, the blunt chisel that is deadly sharp. A sharp chisel is safely sharp.
I don't get it
@@paulludwigewaldvonkleist4039 "Blunt" chisels are still sharp enough to cut you, and are more likely to. (Hence, they are "deadly sharp".) Sharp chisels are a lot safer. (Hence, they are "safely sharp")
Yes
@@paulludwigewaldvonkleist4039 To clarify more: a blunt chisel will require more force to cut/slice grain, so you'll end up with less control over your cut/pare/chop or whatever you're doing, while the sharp chisel will be much more controlled. It's similar to kitchen knives. Actually, blunt knives and chisels are also more dangerous in that they'll give you a fairly ragged cut, rather than something that's very clean from a very sharp knife/chisel.
@@wyssmaster Can confirm, was using a chisel and was stupidly cutting towards myself and it wasn't optimally sharp so when the wood gave out the force i used carried the chisel to stab my finger. The cut was very clean and i didn't feel any pain so that was nice though so it was at the dull enough to require force but sharp enough to be clean stage.
Thank you I learn something new today.
I just use an India stone only thing to use for 40 years ,shave with any chisel when done properly,all of stone gets used side to side and front to back,carpenteering is my life ,I love it
I just subscribed and just watched this video. Very informative, I really enjoyed it, thanks.
Good job, thanks for the tips. I struggle with sharpening.
Best tutorials on TH-cam! Thank you!
Why oh why I didn't know about you when I used to live in B'STOKE??? Brilliant videos mush, absolutely brilliant!
Your videos are amazing!!!! You are one good wood worker!
BTW, what is that beautiful cabinet behind your left shoulder? Many of us would love to see more of your work in addition to these videos.
Have a look at my playlists, I have videos on building multiple projects! That cabinet can be viewed here: th-cam.com/video/qsrL0FhiSOw/w-d-xo.html
"this chisel is well and truly"... I like how you didn't need to finish that sentence. The power of non-verbal :)
madly and deeply do????
Well done Matt. I’m a cabinet maker and I agree with everything you said in this video. I am lucky enough to own a Tormek, I wouldn’t use anything else. My lie Nielsen chisels have never seen a high speed grinder and never will
Great demonstration and explanation.
Excellent video very helpful thanks Matt
Good video.
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Super video with super tips. Thanx Matt!!
No worries mate, glad it helped!
Fantastic video, and the best explanations of why and reasons that I've ever heard. Thank you so much. Is there any chance you can show how to sharpen wood turning chisels please?
when i started out i sharpend my granddads old bahco chisels, They had a lot of nicks in em but i spent the time to sharpen them with a combination stone, The grits were 8000 and 10000 , it took a really really long time, but it worked. I wasnt the one who bought the stone btw, i got as a christmas present from my dad, and he didnt know any better :)
Great video, nice clear instructions.
There is actually a book of carpentry and one of the main rules in it states any tools that are suppose to be sharp, should be sharp at all times 😊 I can't remember the name of the book or the author of it but I would love have it in my library. Anyways, Great video and great job! I have always used a bench grinder to sharpen my chisels but it would be great to have that cool tool you have there.
Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing
Brilliant video, enjoyed it thank you
Sharpening seems so simple and easy when you have the right angled devices. I feel like it’s difficult without them but idk
It's not hard. Just practice. You don't need all this garage to get a great edge. People have been sharpening tools for hundreds of years without all this. This is for people who don't want to learn the simple skill of sharpening. Practice, and you can do all this with a single medium grit bench stone and a strop, hell you could do it with a file and cardboard for a strop. All this guy's props are totally unnecessary
Nice vid! Good detail. Thanks!
Fo Shizzle dats a sharp chisel. After my grandad died my father had to clean out his gunsmith shop and I saw this little stump of a chisel with an improvised handle made out of a an old wooden YoYo to this day it’s the sharpest thing I’ve ever held in my life. I like that Tormach I borrowed one from a friend to finish a couple of straight razors I made that wet wheel is fantastic.
Class video mate 👍🏼
It would seem that the purpose of the primary bevel would to separate the cut material from the secondary which should allow you to move through the material easier. I'm guessing of course.
Yup.
Dont think that matters much. slicing tools like chisels dont need "blade clearance" like a toothed cutting tool, especially since you use a chisel "bevel down" for most cutting operations, and the chip would be clearing from the flat back of the blade. Fairly certain that the secondary geometry is purely for ease of honing as he said in the video. I used to do a single angle sharpen on my bench chisels before i knew any better and i never noticed a difference in chip clearance. What you do notice almost immediately is that you can get a secondary bevel up to a mirror edge and razor sharpness with a fraction of the effort it takes to polish up a whole large bevel.
Other types of cutting tools work fine with a single angle bevel. I have been grinding my lathe tools on a homemade jig on my standard bench grinder for years, they work great with no additional dressing beyond knocking the burr off the gullet on gouges.
I found out that if you don't have access to good polishing stones you can get some pretty good results using jewelers rouge on the back of a serial box on a raised surface.
(good option if your'e college student on a budget)
Also, if you use power tools to sharpen blades (like multipurpose belt sanders or bench grinders), make sure that the blades don't get too hot when working with them as it can soften the metal.
Hi Matt please can you explain how to make your wooden angle gage and how to use it ?
Good stuff bro...you’re a funny guy!
So, is that handheld honing guide what you would recommend using to make the initial primary bevel angel in place of a tormek (if we are starting out and don’t have access to a tormek)?
This is a pretty good demo. But just as you were talking about contaminating the finer water stone, you did just that!!! The only way to avoid cross contamination of water stones is to firstly use separate fine and course stones. Secondly, use separate water vessels for washing them individually. Thirdly, wash everything under the tap, especially the honing guide and item being sharpened. .
Finally, when actually sharpening, use ALL of the stone's length. Start the pull a few millimetres from the end, and regularly turn it around.
When I first discovered water stones about 20 years ago, hardly anyone was using them. I've sharpened edges on some of my best 19th and early 20th century chisels by some of the best makers, and not needed to touch them again for ages!
I think the time spent first getting a REALLY flat and then highly polished (white stone) surface on the back of a chisel or plane blade is key to getting the very best results. Without it, what you have is a shiny saw edge.
Matt, please consider listing your other videos and the products you use in your discription. Then we can easily find your other videos and you can use affiliate links if you like and we get the benefit of easily finding the tools you recommend/use.
Great help thanks.
Didn't even know there's so much tiny tools to keep the chisel calm and on point while sharpening and then that "Tormek" thing ... Sharpened my chizels by hand on a random 2 bucks whetstone, some polishing green pasta and just a random piece of shirt i find around the house... yes they do shave nicely for 4 years already :D
Nice, Thank you.
Well, frankly getting such diamond sharpener stone is quite difficult here in my home country and kind of expensive too. It's a lot cheaper for us to just build that machine from water pump motor and attach a grinding wheel on it. More like opposite world here but thank's for the video. It really helps beginner woodworking enthusiast like me.
Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Are you, by any chance, in the same Wood Centre as Paul Sellers. The video of your shop move in looked similar. Keep up the great work!
Matt,
Angle the tormac at 25 wirh the guide en then compare it with a bevelbox mine is 5 degrees off??
Love the videos Matt, some great tips and information. One comment sir, If you listen with headphones (like me) it seems the intro music is really loud compared to the main audio track. IE: Having to rip off/remove headphones due to loud beats while trying to listen, sorry if it sounds like whining. It seems to be a thing for way too many YT videos. It's great you don't have a soundtrack during the video, easy to hear exactly what your trying to get across. Thanks and keep up the good work!
love the metric measurement
How to sharpen a chisel with tools that you don't or will never own. Brilliant!
While at the same time describing what to using the tools you are more likely to own. I happen to own a Grizzly wheel (think lower cost Tormek) and appreciate the extra discussion on using the wheel as well as the stone.
Hi Matt really enjoy your videos really helpful. Just one thing do you leave your whetstone in the water all the time or how long do you leave it to soak before using ?
Very good info. thank you.
No problem Marcus, glad you find it useful!
I hollow grind with a dressed bench grinder, using very light pressure. Next, I use a whet stone. Finally, I draw the blade toward me, flipping it each stroke. You can shave with the chisels when done.
Do a video....I'm curious to your method...
Top videos fella
Great video! What was the type/brand of honing compound of are using? And is on a leather strop?
I use a piece of thick mirror glass, sheets of abrasive paper and a guide, final polish off the burr with wet or dry paper and it's stupidly sharp. No stones to wear out or go out of flat.
Cheers pal!
Wow, all these haters in the comments sound super jealous you have the setup to maintain the tools you use, to put food on your table, in the way you find best/suitable to your needs. I'm amazed they have the time to type so many hater comments yet no time to search for a video on hand sharpening like your Tool Duel 2 video. I'm finding there are many know it all snobs in the wood working world.... well the world in general. Thank you for your time to make this video even though it doesn't necessarily fit my exact needs... I understand your world doesn't revolve around me ;-)
Ya callate alv
Daft question. Do you use the 25 & 30 degree setting block for both chisels and plane blades
Hello Matt, nice work, what you are doing here with all this information on your videos. Have no words to thank you for that. Don't remember how I've got to your channel, but good that it went like that, because I'm addicted on that now (at least until my kids wake up and/or my wife gets crazy!). Would you, please write down how that last piece used with the fine paste is called? Brazilian guy here watching your videos, just want to be sure that I find one of this thing for me. No inputs to you, so far, just my compliments for your efforts and mindset! Thanks!
Forget it, I found it. Strap!
Great video. Do you need to do anything different for mortice chisels?
On your diamond stone what grit do you use to flatten your 6000 and 1000 wetstone sides?
By completely flat primary bevel do you mean somewhat concave (as the tormack stone is round) primary bevel? This could make a difference in using the chisel bevel down.
Very well explained! 👍
He didn't mention you need a burr or you won't get a sharp chisel.
Johnny carson
Matt, just subscribed 👌🏻.. great vid kid, you really know your stuff.. would you share the model and brand of the sharpening tool? Tks in advance, I'm in America .. maybe I can buy that tool here or something similar to it... what's the name of the tool and average price? Tks
The average price varies quite a lot! But it is called the Tormek T8. There is a smaller version called the T4 as well!
Sorry if you covered this, but what is the reasoning behind doing a drag back? I was always taught to push forward like the blade is shaving off the stone. Is there a difference between the two?
Where do you purchase your stones and which ones will I require for chisel sharpening. Thanks
The Gordon Ramsay of woodworking. Thank You!
that is pro work
My God man, that is one nice bench and vice
Cheers Stephen! I have a series of videos on my channel that document the progress of me making it. The playlist is called 'Building a Roubo Workbench' if you're interested.
Have question.When i try to put the microbevel it's not even.But my jig is parrallel to the wheels of the jig??
What lubricant do you need for a combination diamond stone?
These videos in a nutshell: Here's a thing - we're going to do this thing also and if you don't know this thing you can watch my previous video... *proceeds to next video* k so there's this other thing... (100 videos later I'm a fine woodworking craftsman full of encyclopedic knowledge and I've never touched so much as a chisel worth more than 5$). Thanks for all your effort!
J017 RogueBot 😂😂 I thought this was going to be a hate comment when I started reading it. Glad it’s useful mate, thank you for the kind words :)
@@MattEstlea oh it is - I hate that I've now spent about 10k$ on fine woodworking kit. Darn you Bridge City tooooooools.
Once you have precision tool like Tomac you primary angle can be increase to be more than 25° may be 28°... so the blade be stronger