Hi Y'all, I would be interested in how you all sharpen your planer and joiner knives? What tools and or jigs do you use? I can not find anyone locally to do a good job of sharpening these and would like to be able to do it myself. Thanks. Steve
Thanks for all of the input. I am reading all of the suggestions with great interest and welcome all suggestions. I will watch this thread closely until I find something that either works for me or that I can afford. I have two lunch box craftsman thickness planers; one 12" and one 13" and a 6 & 1/8" joiner to keep sharp. I just purchased a new set of knives for the 13" and they were $64.64 delivered. I thought that to be a little expensive. Steve
Steven, do you think theres enough 'meat' on those blades to sharpen? The ones on my old Delta and the new Dewalt are 1/16" thick. Plus after sharpening, the position of the edge will be different from the indexing pins on the cutterhead.Thanks for all of the input. I am reading all of the suggestions with great interest and welcome all suggestions. I will watch this thread closely until I find something that either works for me or that I can afford. I have two lunch box craftsman thickness planers; one 12" and one 13" and a 6 & 1/8" joiner to keep sharp. I just purchased a new set of knives for the 13" and they were $64.64 delivered. I thought that to be a little expensive. Steve
I did a quick search but could not find a thread someone posted a while back where they shapened blades by cutting a slot in a board that matched the bevel angle and width of the blade and then sharpened using a ROS. Hopefully the author will see this and chime in. :wsmile:
Do you do the thin disposable ones Jeff, or the big honker 'real-man' sawmill sized ones?I sharpen them on the wife's electric knife sharpener in the can opener. I joint and plan a lot of lumber, if I had to send out for sharping I would go broke... Wear a pair of butcher gloves cause those blades will cut you up man...