An Inspired Portable Sharpening System

  As I have said many times many ways, Merry Christmas to you, no no, that is not what I said, that is what the radio just said in the back ground. 

   It is after supper, I have spent the day in the shop, mostly making small repairs to kids toys and working on a big Christmas gift.  Now it is time to relax, do a blog or two and have a cool beverage.  My policy is absolutely no sharp tools, or motorcycles mixed with cool beverage time. It is safer to blog and beverage, I can edit out the errors and the keyboard almost never cuts my fingers.

Portable Sharpening System

   Dan's Shop is a blog that I follow regularly because it has shown me good ideas and I like and respect what he has to say.  His most recent blog entry relates to sharpening.  Dan uses the Scary Sharp System, a system that I have used in the past and found very effective. I also use my Worksharp and have found it great for chisels.

   Regardless of what system you use, sharp tools are vital to success and having sharp tools on a work site can be a challenge so a portable system like Dan's Scary Sharp is a good idea.

  The availabily of  Quality fine grit sandpaper  makes a portable Scary Sharp system a very good idea.

Leveling Chair legs using the table saw

  I know that I rage against the dying of the night( and computers generally) and all that know me know that I will not go gentle into that good night.  But some time I have to eat  crow too, it is not as poetical but....it is real.  As much as the internet, and computers and cell phones make me crazy, often, just the moment before I throw the lap top out the second story window or drive three inch spikes through the key board something like this floats to the surface.

  The video shows such a cool and useful trick that I not only wish I had thought of it but fleetingly thought of claiming to have invented it.  Anyway, I make no such claim, I can claim only to have found it and be passing it on to you.

level legs using your table saw.

thin kerf rip blade, the one I've used for several years and had sharpened three or four times.