{"id":27653,"date":"2014-09-02T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27653"},"modified":"2018-09-17T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:24:49","slug":"sharpening-woodworking-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/sharpening-woodworking-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpening woodworking tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an occasional woodworker, but I&#8217;m always aware I don&#8217;t sharpen my tools as often as I should. One of the reasons I don&#8217;t is that it&#8217;s such a hassle to sharpen them properly: it&#8217;s not as simple as sharpening a kitchen knife, and you need to spend time to work through from a coarse grit (250 or so), through medium grit (1000) and into fine (4000) or even superfine (15000 and higher). This video by Paul Sellers has persuaded me that it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way for most of the woodworking hand tools I&#8217;m likely to use:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbAo4RpM7oM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 8 Nov 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this video Paul Sellers shows that you don&#8217;t need to sharpen to 15,000+ grit on you planes, chisels and other woodworking tools. 250-grit works just fine for most of our woodwork. Paul addresses the myths and misinformation put forward, and challenges what we think about sharpening.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Paul Sellers and the work he is involved with visit <a href=\"http:\/\/paulsellers.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/paulsellers.com<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an occasional woodworker, but I&#8217;m always aware I don&#8217;t sharpen my tools as often as I should. One of the reasons I don&#8217;t is that it&#8217;s such a hassle to sharpen them properly: it&#8217;s not as simple as sharpening a kitchen knife, and you need to spend time to work through from a coarse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,487,161],"tags":[1140,1177,1198],"class_list":["post-27653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-tools","category-woodworking","tag-handtools","tag-paulsellers","tag-sharpening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27654,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions\/27654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}