Trend Diamond Sharpening Stone | Fast, Easy Sharpening

well guys there's not much that i hate more than sharpening chisels and plain irons but i got a new tool that i am actually really excited about it is a diamond wet stone by trend i just tried it out for the first time did my first chisel i've got it split in hairs sharp and i'm really excited about it so just a real brief history i'm not a sharpening guru i don't care to be i like having sharp tools but i do not enjoy sharpening them and in the past i've used a few different things i've got this grizzly wet grinder here that i bought don't like using it hardly ever touch it and then what i had been using was these wet stones which are fine pretty decent kit you know but you got to get water out and do all that jazz and it just made sharpening stuff such a pain and long process so i've had my eyes on these diamond wet stones for a while now and i finally pulled the trigger because i actually wanted something that i could keep in my work van to touch up an edge on a dull chisel or plane if i needed to but just using it here in the shop and i want to show you how this works before we get into this i am not a skilled sharpener by any means i mean i know the basics but i do not nerd out on this stuff this was my first chisel i did it free hand with this diamond stone let me try not to cut myself but yet show you how sharp i got it so i wanted a sharpening solution that i could keep on my van that would be very fairly compact but that i could sharpen on the job site so i started looking at these diamond stones got on stumpy nubs youtube channel and he's obviously extremely extremely knowledgeable about this stuff knows way more than i care to know about it and he highly recommended this trend stone the trend stone has 300 grit on one side and 1000 grit diamonds on the other which seemed like a pretty ideal solution for all around sharpening purposes i believe you can purchase just the diamond stone itself or you can buy a kit i went ahead and bought the kit it comes with a case comes in this little box and it also comes with a leather strop which will also fit in this case which i liked along with some polishing compound and then i believe separately i bought this trend lapping fluid because that's what you want to use with this now something really important that i learned on stumpy nubs channel is that the way this is manufactured these are not obviously naturally made diamonds they're man-made diamonds and through some crazy process they get these things on this piece of super flat steel anywho these diamonds are impregnated into this surface but some of them are not in deep enough and they're going to dislodge on your first use so it's important that you break in the stone which will dislodge some of those diamonds that are sitting higher up on the surface if you don't if you use your best irons right away it'll be like sand on the surface with those things rolling around and it could do a quite a bit of damage to your plane iron or whatever it is you're trying to sharpen so he recommended using uh a junk chisel or something dull so that's what i did i broke in the stone first uh just with a chisel that i didn't care about and then i washed it off blew it off got all of that grit off of there and then sharpened this first chisel which i showed before and it went perfectly so i'll show you what i'm doing here and how this thing works so if you want a really basic explanation of sharpening it's essentially bringing two perfectly flat surfaces to a point that's all we're doing two perfectly flat surfaces to a point so we need to flatten for a chisel we need to flatten the back of it and then obviously then we'll do the front as well so i just started off i washed this stone off and then blew it off with air now i'm going to put a little bit of this lapping fluid on the stone so to start with i want to start with my back of the chisel and get that nice and flat and the way that i have seen to do this and again i'm not a sharpening expert but i look at the back of the chisel and you can see my wear marks where i'm flattening this down and my goal is for this whole area to be the same shiny color and consistency and that's going to mean that this whole area is perfectly flat the other thing you don't want to do is push really hard from what i understand you just want to use light pressure and let the stone do the work if you put push too hard you're probably going to put deeper scratches in and then it's going to actually be a lot harder with your thousand grit to get that nice polished edge that's going to be super sharp so as you can see here i'm starting to wear down and as i keep lapping this the color here is going to keep coming into the center so i just want to keep doing this until that's all the same color and i get that nice polished look on the back side and then i'll flip it over and start on the front so again we just hit this all with 300 and you can see this color difference here this is not flat but this up here the whole cutting area up here is flat you can see how we worked that nice shiny color in all the way across this surface here so now to me that's good enough now i'll flip it over and move to the top edge i'm going to go ahead and put a little more honing compound on this now essentially what you want to do is uh match the bevel on your chisel so start it out here and then rock it up into place and you'll feel whenever you have that exact angle engaged so for me i'm just going to start at the top of the stone i'm going to feel that angle and you want to put pressure on that front tip of your chisel with your two fingers lock your body in position and then just draw it back now some people are skilled enough that they can do a figure eight i would royally jack up this chisel if i tried to do a figure eight right now on 300 grit especially so i'm just gonna lap it back again each time rock it up until you feel that that nice match of angle and try and keep that exact same position as you pull it back now if you've ever studied up on sharpening very much you know that as you sharpen one side it creates a burr on the opposing side so it's good to go back and forth from one side to the other a little bit to keep that burr off but it doesn't take much with this 300 and i feel like it it's ready to move to the thousand one thing i do want to mention that might not go without saying some of your chisels that might not be very beat up you don't need to go straight to the 300 grit with those and get them scratched up a whole bunch you can probably just start with the 1000 grit side and be just fine if your edges are not very beat up especially on your narrower chisels then i found obviously on the wider ones you've got a wider surface here that you're trying to flatten and going a little bit more aggressive will help you get that flatter quicker probably but again you can just look at the coloring as you work the chisel and if it's going too slow on flattening it then bump up to the 300 grit but you may find actually you probably will find if your chisels are pretty good that starting with the 1000 is just fine what we just did was 300 so now i'll flip it over to the thousand side again add some honing fluid i guess you call it there and start on the back here again letting the diamonds do the work not pushing down extremely hard to finish it off they do provide you with a strop in this kit so put a little compound on the strap and just lapping as far as strops go i like that they give you this strop in the kit that matches the the same size as your diamond stone here i have a different strap in my shop but i don't really want to carry this thing around in my van so i like that the one they give you can just go in the kit they also give you two different types of strop compound uh ones a little bit coarser and ones for polishing more so if you're on the job site and you want to just give a blade a quick sharpening with just the strap you've got a little bit more of an aggressive compound and then the green compound here is a little bit more for polishing but i did go ahead and i just hit the blade with both compounds the white compound and then polished it up with the green a little bit and i'll show you what we've got here in terms of the look on the chisel this is what we've got again it's not perfect i'm not trying to be a world-class sharpener here but as you can see it it polished up really nice very nice and sharp give her the old hair test here without me trying to cut myself oop there it went better shave it some more you can see there takes takes some hair off so the purpose of this video was not to be a world-class sharpening video or for me to teach you a world-class lesson on sharpening it's more of a sharpening for dummies video i consider myself a sharpening dummy i don't want to know everything there is about sharpening i just want to be able to get a sharp edge quickly and do what i need to do on the job site and that's why i went ahead and bought this diamond stone and i'm super happy with it i don't think there's anything better that i could probably come up with for an on-site solution to sharpening something quickly and honestly i'll probably end up using this for all my sharpening in the shop too because i hate getting out these water stones so uh mission accomplished i would say i think this is a great product i'm really gonna like all the reviews on this trend diamond stone have been good that i've seen and for me it's plenty good enough so very pleased i like the fact that you don't have to have water to do it you're on the job site you want to do something or in the shop just put a little bit of the lapping fluid on it go to town flat in the back hit the front edge hit your strap and you're good to go doesn't get any better than that [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Insider Carpentry - Spencer Lewis

Views: 54,260

Keywords: insider carpentry, finish carpentry, festool, chisel sharpening, diamond stone, how to sharpen a chisel, plane sharpening, diamond stone sharpening, wetstone sharpening, how to sharpen

Id: e_RfN2XTaCk

Length: 13min 6sec (786 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 15 2021