I bought one of the new Wood River spoke shaves and then was confronted with sharpening the Blade. Sharpening the bevel is a problem as it can only be worked along the very edge of the stones and the posts tend to get notched rubbing as they do the stone edge.
Then as I went to re sharpen the blade I wondered why I shouldn’t only hone the bottom. Of course there is more metal to remove so has anyone tried hollow grinding the bottom of one of these small blades to make sharpening them a snap as you pressed the back to the stone moving it back and forth with the bolts coming off the top.?
The illustration shows the blade configuration short of the yellow hollow ground I’m suggesting. You’d think they would come this way.
Peter
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I do that kind of hollowing with a 2" sanding disk with an air powered angle die grinder. you have to be very careful, but it does a good job, pretty quickly.
Peter,
I've been using a hollow grind as you describe, for years, works well.
Ray
Many Japanese chisels are hollow ground in the same manner you are describing, for the reasons you described. Even if you screw it up, Woodriver blades are fairly inexpensive so you can buy a new one and try it again.
PS they don't come that way to save manufacturing time and costs, they really don't mind you putting in the work yourself though.
-Ian
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