Here is my 2 cents on sharpening (now worth about .001 cents after the market crash!). I have oil stones, water stones, ceramic stones and diamond stones. I never sat down and sharpened all of my chisels, because it was just too much work. One day, I was in Woodcraft and just walking around, and another customer points out the new Worksharp system to me, and starts telling me about how it won the new tool of the year award, etc., etc., etc. Of course, they were sold out, except for the floor model, so I went online and found a great deal and bought it. When it came, I put it on the workbench, and in one afternoon, I sharpened every chisel and plane blade I had up to 6000 grit, and without breaking a sweat. They are fantastically sharp (including removing some big chips from a Japanese chisel I dropped on a concrete floor). Now, when a chisel gets dull, instead of throwing it in the drawer and trying to find a sharp one, I take out the Worksharp and sharpen the dull one that I really need. So, now I am a huge fan. I still have all the other stones (in fact, I bought the 30,000 Shapton, but that was just for polishing straight razors!), but they never get used.
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