V chisel....help!

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

I have a ramelson 1.5mm micro v chisel....and I have a problem getting it sharpened right! I have used the chisel and only honed it since buying it, and I noticed it acting different, I looked thru magnifiers and the bottom of the v was just a notch, so when I cut there wasn't a bottom to the trough, if that makes sense! So I sharpened it and that was fun, one side then another off...and ended up with an angle so steep, I had to have the palm handle way up in the air! So...I started again today, and I notice they have a flat area on the bottom outside of the v so that even if I sharpened and honed, the bottom would be flat! I brought the bottom together and the sides pretty even and it cuts like crazy.....straight!! but when I try to turn, it plows....HELP!! What is it in volumes I don't know about sharpening a vee chisel??

[Nancy-G]

I have THE answer to ALL V-tool sharpening problems .....


Buy a new one :-[

Hi Ho

I sent you some info. Let me know if it came over ok.

Dale

Try this - Go to the home center and buy a piece of molding shaped as near to your v tool as possible, also buy a sheet of 80 grit sand paper. Go home and practice sharpening the wood molding on the sand paper until you get the feel for it. Once you get that feel, then try your v tool again. Same trick works for gouges, just buy differenct shaped molding.

[AlArchie]

All I can add is that I have several very 'short-shanked' V-tools. Â*Wish I could help, but like you, I NEED help. Â*Maybe Nancy has the answer, if it can't be fixed by stropping, buy a new one........aaaaararrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh! > > >

Al

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Ed's idea about practice is a good one! The info Dale sent me is outstanding but it is still very hard maintaining any continuity on a very small v tool!! I do have it in at least decent shape now and can use it, that is something! It kills me to toss something and buy new when all it needs is sharpening......so.....I'll keep messing with it until I get it right....maybe I will make my fortune sharpening v tools! NOT! LOL

[Nancy-G]

No, no .... you don't toss those dull Vs OUT ....... you toss them INto a box. Every few months a good or even great sharpener wanders by to get some cookies or pickles and sharpens them all for me.
Why do you think I can those pickles :

Send it (along with some cookies or pickles) to me.
You pay the shipping.

[Callynne]

I'm curious about something. I saw in a catalog a device to hold Dockyard Micro tools to sharpen them, it's supposed to hold them at the correct angle. I'm wondering if that would be a good thing to have, it cost about forty dollars but it would be worth it for someone like me who uses (and abuses) micro tools so much. Or would it just be better to, since I don't have anyone wondering by that can sharpen them, send them to you Rick when I've messed them up?? Thoughts, please! Callynne

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

^Thanks Rick, I might just take you up on that! and Callynne, I saw one too, it is on Ross Oars ad in the latest WCI, but I can't figure out how it works, looks like a couple circles with a bolt through it?