How To Make a Sharpening Station for DMT Diamond Stones - Sharpen that Blade

my old sharpening station was Whetstone's and it was all the way across the room it just wasn't quite as convenient or useful as I wanted on top of that with wet stones you have to be kind of careful because they can get a bit dirty and that can get into your work if you're not watching what you're doing so it is now time to move on to Diamond stones this is something I've been wanting to do for a while but I'm finally getting around to it I chose a board that was 2 inches wider than the stones are long so that I can have one inch all the way around each of the stones and 1 inch in between them it was easy to mark them out because the stones are steel so I could just drag the knife along it and make my mark then I took the chisel to make the stop cut and went around each of the 3 in in sets I put the chisel right into the the marking line not as worried about moving a line over in this one as it won't be a completely tight fit each pass I'm taking about a sixteenth out so I'm chiseling from one side to the other and it actually goes pretty quickly to clean out an entire layer 16 inch deep now because I'm making a dive cut at one side I have to go back around and clean out the other side that I came in from but that's pretty quick so now that I've taken a sixteenth inch out of this one and it's fairly level I make a whole nother series of stop cuts all the way around so that I can then come back through and take out another sixteenth inch and once it's down three sixteenth of an inch which is the the final depth I want I bring in the hand router and just smooth out the entire bottom it is fairly important that the bottom is flat so that the stone can register all the way across the wood and not being held up at any one point at this point I realized it would actually be very useful to have handholds on either side of the stone so that I could actually remove the stones from their slots so if I ever needed to use them outside of the the frame and easier to get them out so I just took the auger and bored out a hole on either side so there's basically a semicircle sticking out of either side of the rectangles and I just bored down to a sixteenth of an inch actually just slightly shy so that I could clean it out with the hand writer I'm very happy I did that because I've already taken them out a couple times for sharpening the hand router and a few other things like that now its second verse same as the first and then third verse same as the first it actually went really fast the last one I got to is about half the time of the first one and they're fairly easy to clean out these rectangles are simple and smooth or something really rounded or painful about this there they go and I'll put the stones in just to make sure there's a good fit and anything that needs to be cleaned up I can do at this point and most of them there was just some little bump out of the need to be clean I attached the strop into the last the last place and held it down with three very small brass screws this was this is something I really like and I'm very glad I did it it's just really convenient to have a strop right in line with so that I can progress through them used a bit of polishing compound and now it's time for a test I use a water and soap combination that is what DMT suggests to use and start with the course this one is the EMTs extra course plate and then on to the fine which I believe is about 800 grit or so and the extra fine is my final stone which is about 1200 grit finishing it off on the strop and it's pretty quick and easy just to go boom boom boom be done with it each of the stones then come with this little rubber foot that you can put on the bottom of stone for using on top of the table I took those feet and put them on the bottom of this plate and it holds it perfectly I don't have to clamp it or move it so I finally have a proper sharpening station one of the really nice things about the diamonds is they don't require a lot of lubrication as a matter of fact it's very very little and they even say that you can use them dry I like a little bit of lubrication just to move things out of the way but I can keep this right behind me so that every time I need to Rijo nee blade or resharpen it I can just turn around and do it it's not something I have to go all the way over there mess with all the water clean up and just have a different place so this is from the the paul cellars design but here's only the three over here and i really wanted to have the strop with it so it's not a separate item because 90% of time I'm using a leather strop I do have a wooden strop that I will put in my vise but I don't use that a whole lot and that's usually just for flattening the black back low blade I also have this rounded corner that has a gradient of angles on it so I can fill in the buffing compound into there the polishing compound and do the insides of my gouges so I'm kind of liking that little edge here this is the extra coarse the fine and the extra fine as well as the leather is a horse but leather makes it a very very hard leather and I just get a little bit finer edge on it because of that all in all I really enjoy this and I'm really looking forward to using it I've been using it already and it has been a huge huge improvement to the shop as always if you enjoyed the video please let me know in the comments below if you thought I could do something better or see something problem with the setup or see something I can do differently next time please let me know I'd love to hear your ideas you may not know this but some of the the best ways that I learn are actually from you the viewers you give me some amazing ideas please keep that up if you liked the video hit like or possibly even subscribing feel free to check out one of my other videos and until next time have a wonderful day

Channel: Wood By Wright ASMR

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Keywords: project, sharpening, how-to, woodworking, hand, chisel, Diamond Stones, tool, tools, Handtools, Hand Tools, Hand plane, Hardwood, Hardwoods, DMT, Sharpening Station, How To, red oak, horse but strop, wood, woodwork, woodshop, hand planes, woodworking project, blade, hand tool woodworking, diy

Id: VDqgVUeCDmc

Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 19 2016