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You are absolutely right. We also know that a chisel honed at 40 degrees tends to crush wood fibers more than a chisel honed at 30 degrees. If John is allowed to ignore the honing angle, I am taking the same liberties. :P Except for possibly "using up" the blade faster, why is it more...

OK, so I had my test. Sharpened my Stanley #3 blade with a round bevel. put it in, tuned, and it takes full width gossamer shavings. Put the blade in the veritas Mk II jig, ground a flat bevel, back to the plane, and however I set the blade, it skids over the timber. No shavings at all. For...

Well, John, For a comparison of the round and flat bevel you should ensure that the tangent of the round bevel and the grinding angle of the flat bevel are the same. Otherwise you are just comparing different honing angles and we know the effect of changing the honing angle. If you started...

ByronBlack - I guess that once you are used to your method of sharpening there is no point in changing to something else. Any method takes some practicem and comparing the results of a once of try of the round bevel with what you get after years of practice is a bit unfair. I have switched to...

Eight months ago my daughter gave me a Gyokucho ryoba. An impressive tool. The cuts are as smooth as a baby's bum, and just as straight. After two months of trying to get straight cuts out of the thing, it now hangs in my tools-nice-to-look-at corner of the shed, a.k.a. the...