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Since I got Mark Rhodes' sharpening method wrong on my previous post, here is a blog post which I believe emulates his method more accurately. http://www.closegrain.com/2012/09/hollow-ground-duosharp-sharpening.html

Here's a blog post on more conventional sharpening using double-bevel: http://www.closegrain.com/2012/08/double-bevel-paring-chisel-sharpening.html I still don't have perfect control for flat bevels, but I continue to practice.

I know some of you chaps here are so bored with sharpening you've probably keeled over asleep on your keyboards, but for those still awake, here's a blog post with video where I tried out Mark Rhodes' sharpening method as he described it on another thread...

Been a while, so I figured I'd stop back in with a post on...sharpening! The mutant love-child of convex bevel and double bevel! This is the way Mary Shelley would have sharpened her tools. You can read about it here, and watch the accompanying video...

I completed this tool wall last week. You can see more detailed photos and read about it at http://www.closegrain.com/2011/02/workshop-reorganization.html.

Ok, I've read the back-and-forth here on sharpening techniques, so at the risk of igniting a flame war :shock:, here's a 2-part blog post on giving Mr. Grimsdale's method a try, including a video at the end of part 2. http://www.closegrain.com/2010/04/grimsdale-method.html I offer this in the...