<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A less expensive alternative is <a href="http://www.wapin.com/SurgiSharp_1.htm">http://www.wapin.com/SurgiSharp_1.htm</a> available from our good buddies at Wapin.<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It is a kit which uses a bench sander as its base, and provides for fine honing (600 grit belt) and stropping (leather belt with rouge). I got this recently and was amazed at how fast and how sharp I could get chisels, pocket knife, and blades for voicing harpsichord quills (I can peel the thinnest imaginable shaving of delrin with ease, that is if I have my magnifiers on so I can see well enough <G>). It's the stropping belt that really does it, puts that razor edge on fast and slick, though the sanding belt action on a chisel is far faster than a wheel and doesn't build up heat. (I still like to hollow grind a chisel as a starting point, but I stay farther from the point). And the bench sander is multi purpose.<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>That WorkSharp looks pretty cool, too.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Paul T Williams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi List,</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I just found out about a great tool sharpening tool at <a href="http://www.worksharptools.com">www.worksharptools.com</a>  Check it out!  It would save hours sharpening chisels, etc.  and not too spendy.</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Paul</font> <br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>