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What System do you prefer for sharpening your chisels?

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Formerly know as Mandodiddle.

I settled on the Veritas Mark II guide and use it with diamond stones and 1200 grit on granite surface plate. I've used the MarkII for maybe 15 years. For sharpening, I use the MKII guide to diamond lap at 700 then 1000, then move to 1200 Wet or Dry and finish with a leather strop. I use the micro bevel feature. With a microbevel I can resharpen in 3-4 minutes. It takes longer to get then clean and stow the diamond plates. I use dollar-store windex on diamond stone and 3M paper.
I can touch-up an edge maybe 4 or 5 times on a leather strop before having to go back to the stones.
https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/to ... em=05M0920 .

For repairing damaged edges, I use a bizarre drill press system from Taylor Tools- I give it a 9 out of 10 for effectiveness- it works amazingly well. You have to build your own holder, and it needs to be pretty precise. It would require a separate thread to describe it but there is a very good YOUTUBE video on it. https://taytools.com/products/drill-pre ... 777f&_ss=r

YOUTUBE video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Y1AANySkY

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Measure Twice,

Karl Borum