Make an Inexpensive Sharpening System/Appliance 

I am recovering from foot surgery and have found your channel. Watching your video on chisel sharpening after watching other content on the same subject is so down to earth and affordable compared to others. some systems advocated by others run into the 500 to 1000 dollar range and requires other purchases beyond stone it is cheaper to have them sharpened by a service. Your approach to it makes more dollars and cents (get it?) to me and is affordable as well as compact. You have, by far, become my favorite woodworking coach because your approach appeals to the hobbyists who dont have a lot of money to sink into various gadgets. Keep producing cost saving and beneficial content. I also love your continuation of teaching technique. As a prior middle school teacher I love the time and effort you put into the "why's and wherefore's" you include. Not only do I learn new techniques but other general knowledge content you share. I always feel smarter and more energized after watching your content. Truly what youtube is meant to be!

The inlaid gauges is a great idea! Thanks for posting!

Very well done vid. I like that every single word you spoke was perfectly clear. Thumbs up!

As a hobby wood worker, i found the video very informative and covered several important areas. I think the thing the "violin makers" and other purists miss is that this is an introduction to sharpening. One will evolve, if motivated from jigs and sandpaper to freehand and stones blessed by the Dali Lama. I enjoyed your video, it was not too long and I saw several things I believe I could use in my shop. Subscribed!

As ever, a one-stop master class. Really appreciate your teaching, many thanks.

You have some really good ideas I have never thought of using sandpaper, thanks!

Excellent presentation. I wish their was RU-vid 50 years ago.Thanks for taking the time making this video.

Just recently subscribed to your channel and want to thank you so much for all the detail and information! You have no clue how much your videos have helped me!

Great subject, great video. Not too loud, easy to understand. Don't stop.

I enjoy all your videos, I’ve been earning my living as woodworker for 35 years. It shows you can still teach an old dawg new tricks!

Never seen a sharpening station like yours! Very smart! Thanks.

Excellent class! Congratulations!

Thanks for taking time to teach you do such a really good job at it. I learn so much from your videos truly appreciate it

Well explained! Teaching suits you indeed!

I'm just starting to get the hang of hand planing. This is just the combination of "cheap" and "works like a charm" and "convenient" sharpening I was looking for!

I am done gonna make that! I didn't realize it could be that easy, and I already have the necessaries on hand! Thank you for the instructions!

Great explanations. Best 37 min is spent in a long time. Thanks for sharing your thought process. I learned a lot.

Bobby Van Dyke has a few videos on modifying the honing guide to prevent rocking and better fit chisels with a little filing. It's helped my consistency a lot. Very informative video.

Super easy to understand your demonstration. I will be making one of these systems for sure. I do have stones but I like this for a quick sharpening without the mess. Keep up the great lessons my friend.

So well said, agree 100% your strategy on the more you sharpening the easy it is!

great video, concise yet thorough. great content delivered in an engaging way. thankyou

Outstanding setup there . Going to get the supplies to make my own tomorrow

Nice build. I'm still a fan of the Scary Sharp system, but this is very cool, and I can see the benefit of the all in one design. I built a base out of UHMW with a frame that holds my float glass plates with the wet sand paper on them, and just switch them out. I'm one of those sick and twisted individuals that actually enjoys sharpening. Late evenings when everyone else has turned in and I don't want to run any machines, I put the headphones on and touch up chisel and plane irons. Almost kind of a Zen exercise.

Very nice - I love simple and effective tools.

You are great, I watch your videos all the time! My metalworker BF gets tired of me watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Extremely helpful. Lots of great advice.

Desde México. Eres un genio. Gracias por tus vídeos. Se me complica demasiado traducirlos.

You are a very good teacher and the information you provide is excellent. Thanks and keep it up

Mate, that is BRILLIANT

I'm glad that you made this video. Thanks

And to think I actually considered an $80 jig - until I found you! Great idea, and even better, I already have two of the cheap jig you showed! Great teaching video! Thanks for your help in saving money!

thank you . great stuff . question please how do you get the strop clean i use the back corner and scrape it is there a better way ??

thanks for all the info, great presentation !

Very good! I am going to share this video with my son! Thanks.

Awesome videos. Thanks for sharing such great knowledge!

Nice instructional video! I like your workshop!

Nicely done sir.

Thank you! From a woodworking lover who wants to do this as safely as possible.

Very informative and wallet sensible! Just great.

Thanks Shawn. Great stuff.

Just started wood working after a 35 year break, thanks for the vids.

Great Content. Clear and concise 👍

This may be an older video, but the content never gets old! This setup really6 works and as he said, for very little money! as long as this system works for me that $125.00 I was going to spend on the Veritas Delux sharpening jig went into a new hand plane!

Thank you, great info...I'll be making this system.

Great informative video. But what grit sand paper did you used?

Brilliantly informative sir, no b/s. no mystique just a quick strop and back to work.. Thankyou

I don't believe I've picked up nearly as many good, practical and stupid simple techniques from any other video on sharpening! I made my own jig using a couple bearings, threaded rod and a couple pieces of scrap wood with a slot cut out of the inside of each piece to hold the blade just like the jig you used. Which works great.....except the consistency factor trying to guess exactly where to place the blade in the jig. Your solution was such a stupid simple design that I'm in process of copying your sharpening system!! Thanks for all the great and easy to follow content!! Keep em coming!!!

Naval architect and woodboat builder and still learning with you. Thanks great job, kinda natural way mad teacher that I enjoyed. Subscribed

Thank you for your great tip.

Great video, I learned a lot and will be watching more in the future

Great idea and clearly explained. Looking forward to making one. You have earned a new subscriber 😎

WORTHEWATCHING. This video is long, but great. In another of the Wortheffort videos, someone gave a number of suggestions on how to do instructional lectures better, and while quite a bit of it was true, and some of his presentation is put me off a little, the information presented here is well worth focusing on. Well worth it. I had been thinking about buying some of those expensive diamond stones when I saw this. It so happens that where I live, there's a window manufacture that's only a couple of miles from me, where the Big Box DIY store is about ten. So I got a 12 X 18 X 3/8 inch piece of left over float glass for cheap. Built a bed for it from 3/4 inch particle boards glued together to make a 1-1/2 inch thick piece. I tried wet-or-dry paper, and that sharpened, but only lasted for two chisels. The paper still came apart from the water and so I got sand paper on mylar film from Lee Valley Tools. Those sheets are pricey, but I have looked around and haven't found the mylar backed sandpaper anywhere else, yet. They're still about a tenth to a twentieth the price of a diamond stone, so I can't complain even if I have to replace them now and then. But not too often, I hope. The cheap sharpening jig to hold the chisel turned out to be too cheap. It won't hold certain types of chisels with vertical, or partly vertical, sides. Now I must decide which to replace, the chisel or the jig.

Very nice video. What is the that door handle looking tool you had with your diamond plates ?

Great work .

Great and informative video. I learned a lot. Thanks.

I´m making this!! this is awesome for a small shop like mine!

Thanks for another great video!

Thanks! Very informative, I learned a lot.

Excellent video and very informative. I am looking forward to making one for my shop.

Very nice job guy, thank you.

Very impressive my good man, love the video, Thank you !

Thanks for the tips. I don't have any stones for my chisels. At work we made our own cutters to use for paint finessing. These cutters had to be perfectly flat and very sharp. We used glass, 2000g wet/dry sand paper & finessing compound to hone them to a mirror finish. The finessing compound was about 4000g. We used these cutters to cut dirt/fm, scrape runs & flatten light craters out of paint on our car bodies. So I figured if it was good enough to sharpen finessing cutters for paint on a new a new car body, it was good enough for a wood chisel.

Great video, question, will this work for my lathe tools also of course realizing I need different angles?

Nice! How would you clean oil stones?

Great video. Thanks.

Amazing! I had almost the same idea, glad I checked yours out first. That inlay is beautiful! I'm gonna go ahead and steral that idea :p

Awesome idea and very, very cool music.

Really loving your detailed and insightful instructionals. FYI, regarding glass vs the granite tile, I thought your point about granite being easier to find well taken, but I got my chunk of thick, tempered glass from an old bathroom scale, so scavenging can be useful, too (if less reliable than the Big Box store...).

Dude! So COOL! Thank you!

Great idea and great video. I just found your channel and am looking forward to seeing more. I may have missed it but what grits of sandpaper did you use?

Thanks for the presentation. what is the grit of the paper that you use? I see several types at Lee Valley

Would love to make or buy chisel sharpener set up like that, but routing out the lumber is our of my league, but got the idea; thanks.

Always informative

Nice on that stone holder

Thank you for saving me a ton of money!

I have everything I would need to make one of these, and the honing guides are on sale at woodcraft! Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the great vid

I've gone through your video four times and other than course and fine I have no Idea what grits you use. This approach will be great for woodworking classes I teach in Uganda (their tools and resources are very limited) and I can take this to them with sandpaper supplies but knowing the grits will be very helpful. Ben

Great video, this really helped me a lot. Love that you made a jig for a jig.😂

Great, informative video.

I recently made this and it changed my life.

i love the idea of inserting the tile in the board and this actually helps me out a lot because I make statues from 1/4 plexiglass and i have a lot of marble for bases (I buy the broken pieces from the big box store on the cheap and re-cut them to size). I was originally going to use some some tempered glass shelves to do this but when i put a straight edge to one I realized they have a slight bulge on the edge and since they are 36" long they are an inconvenient size.

Damn I wish I had a wood work teacher like you at school, your mad as f, :()aaa. Love your work and your work ethic, keep these vids going 🤙🏻

As for chiselling the angle gauge in the wood next to the granite tile (at 21:50) I think it would be better if you chiseled before setting the tile with epoxy. That way if you screw up the wood you can just chuck it and make a new wooden block. You said it yourself that there is a very real possibility that you could bung up the entire thing. Just my 2cents

Thanks. Cant possibly justify the money to buy the stones, so this was really great!

Great video

You have many skills. My favorite of those is your ability to communicate or teach without talking to the viewer like they're dumb asses or being pompus. I wish you a million viewers and subscribers.

i made something similar a year or so back, the distance setting jig never occurred to me,off to make sawdust, thanks very much!

Thank you and I found your video really thorough. Thanks for making the effort ...cheers..rr

Where do you get that short screwdriver to tighten the jig? Thanks.

great video thank you

I didn't understand the last part where you mark the curve of the grinding stone on a card and transfer it to the jig. How is it used ?

I friggin love this guy

you are really somebody ... thanks

If you're reading this then I'd like to say that the distilled knowledge and thought that has gone into that is really appreciated. Especially just to share it openly. It's quite an exceptional bit of kit you've created. The days and nights thinking about it are really appreciated and sharing it so openly even more. Sell a few!

Great video thanks , I use water stones myself I have tried storing all my stones and a water container in a large plastic container with a lid, I made a shelf in the box to sharpen on and have a small hand towel , I still can not control the mess I make I hate it , water stones sharpen great but I can't stand the time wasted waiting for the stones to soak and the time it takes to clean up after washing the stones and wiping down my bench. It seems sharping with water stones is something you plan to do and not something you do quickly when your blade goes blunt. Id like to go down the Diamond plate road but as you said they are very expensive , anyway your solution is a great idea i am going to give it a go thanks again.

This is a video worth watching over again. The information that is condensed into a half hour video is packed with information everyone should review once a year. His videos are usually pretty informative and relevant. Personally, I can not afford the diamond plates, so, for now, I will stay with the stones. Is there a way to tell if you should use oil or water with them?

You were BORN TO TEACH..I love your jig..

Very good!

Hi there from Portugal, Do you use any Metal abrasive in the leather, like Chromium Oxide? Obrigado(Thanks)