Color me hot and confused chisel sharpener
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:11 pm
Hi,
A while back I purchased the 555812 Chisel Sharpener attachment for the strip sander. I really like it and have had very good results, to this point I was happy to just copy the angles of what ever I was working on...
Today however I was doing some reading about lathe tools and it got me thinking I might just try a bit of a different angle grind. Then for the first time I looked at the gauge that sets the angles.... now I'm lost as there seem to be no match between what I see and what the angles are????
As an example if I set the arm at 90 deg to the patten it reads 75 deg on the gauge. I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong or maybe I put something together wrong or.... hay it hot and humid and maybe my brain has fryed...
I couldn't figure out how to post an image here but I put one out on my yahoo photo page that show what I'm talking about. Please take a look and see if anything looks wrong to you or perhaps someone can explain the way I should be reading this scale.....
To take a look:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/elv60504@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=/eda6re2&.dnm=da99re2.jpg
Feel free to look at the other shopsmith things I have there as well.
Thanks,
Ed
A while back I purchased the 555812 Chisel Sharpener attachment for the strip sander. I really like it and have had very good results, to this point I was happy to just copy the angles of what ever I was working on...
Today however I was doing some reading about lathe tools and it got me thinking I might just try a bit of a different angle grind. Then for the first time I looked at the gauge that sets the angles.... now I'm lost as there seem to be no match between what I see and what the angles are????
As an example if I set the arm at 90 deg to the patten it reads 75 deg on the gauge. I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong or maybe I put something together wrong or.... hay it hot and humid and maybe my brain has fryed...
I couldn't figure out how to post an image here but I put one out on my yahoo photo page that show what I'm talking about. Please take a look and see if anything looks wrong to you or perhaps someone can explain the way I should be reading this scale.....
To take a look:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/elv60504@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=/eda6re2&.dnm=da99re2.jpg
Feel free to look at the other shopsmith things I have there as well.
Thanks,
Ed