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Woodcarving Illustrated

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SUMMER 2012

10

tips and

techniques

Stropping

Angle

From Don Ghee

Huntington Station, N.Y.

No matter how you strop, whether by hand

or with power, the surface you are working is

always face down and out of sight. This makes

it difficult to see if you are holding the tool at

the correct angle.

I use a Sharpie® marker to draw a broad

mark on the side of the blade to be stropped.

Stropping removes the ink only from the

parts of the blade in contact with the strop. If

the ink is removed from the heel of the blade

and not the whole bevel, you are holding the

tool at too low an angle. If you hold the tool

at too high an angle, the ink is removed only

from the tip of the edge, which can produce a

double bevel. Slightly adjust the way you hold

the tool until the ink is removed evenly from

the blade; a few additional strokes will polish

the tool and remove any remaining ink.

I also use this method when sharpening

my tools with a stone or grinder. This way,

I can be sure I have only a single bevel on

my tools.

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Organizing Sandpaper

From Carol Leavy, via E-mail

I use small strips of sandpaper, and sometimes the grit of the

sandpaper is not visible on the backs of the small pieces. A

friend suggested I reinforce sandpaper with strips of duct tape,

especially when I’m sanding in tight corners. I decided to color-

code the duct tape based on the grit. Cover the back of the

sandpaper with the colored duct tape, and cut the sandpaper

into strips with scissors. Clean the adhesive off the scissors

with Simple Green.

Mark the face of the cutting edges of

your tools with a black marker before

stropping or sharpening.

Color-code

small strips

of sandpaper

with duct tape

to identify

their grits.