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General Category => Tool tips & reviews => Topic started by: hughie on September 02, 2015, 10:46:03 AM
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I have been a bit quite of late, very busy with other demands, still turning but much less. Anyway I have this Woodcut sharpening jig, simple and effective with a couple of annoying aspects to it. >:(
I run two grinding wheels 80 grit and 140 grit. So I had to make a additional track/guide call it what you will thingy. It was cobbled together out of what I had lying around and it works rather well.
The other is the clamping action on the main part of the jig. The darn thing is very annoying at times when it locks up along with the bronze nut not really having enough purchase to get around the locking up. So I modified it and now it does n ot lock up and if it did I can a decent purchase in it to undo it.
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Hi Hughie,
good to see you posting again.
Enginers, we're never happy until we've modified something : :D
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Hi Hughie,
I fitted a Lathe locking handle to mine with a nut on the other end works great about £4 from Axminster I think some are called a "Bristol Handle"
Regards John
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So I had to make a additional track/guide call it what you will thingy. It was cobbled together out of what I had lying around and it works rather well.
Please forgive what may be a silly question - but which is the home made jig?
They both look pretty professional to me!
MC
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Anything with red paint is the original by Woodcut. So the right hand set up on the grinder is my doing and the actually jig with the silver metal blocks and black knob etc is also my doing.