How to sharpen knives for planer at home.

A few years ago I took friends for a couple of months thickness planer. Prostrogat thought their stocks boards on future products.

It turned out not so simple. This marking gauge used on the construction site, tore it all in a row, the blades are never changed and sharpened. When I tried it prostrogat dry pine board, the machine barely held her while planing exposed almost to zero. Board to get as after brushing - soft fibers slightly removed, and solid just smoothed out.

Removed the knife, I looked - knife Seredka almost erased, can be seen a clear failure. The question arose to sharpen or buy new ones.

I began to study. New was not so easy to find and the price is not satisfied. Sharpening, too, all is not easy. In one of the offices were surprised that such a small need to sharpen the knives (318 mm length, 20 mm width), which raised doubts. Elsewhere uncertainly we were willing to do such work. Still looked online reviews of people like them "good" imprisoned ...

All this led to the decision to try to sharpen. I looked at this topic on the Internet and found out the following:

At firstKnives need sharpening together to balance preserved, SecondlyOptimal sharpening angle - 40 degrees. This I found to "Artisan" forum (http://forum.woodtools.ru)

Now we have to decide how to sharpen. This site helped me - https://www.pinterest.ru/ I found a picture tools for sharpening planer knives.

As a result, the bar made of ash simple device for sharpening knives of the planer.

The thickness of the slits made so that knives are inserted tightly, and a depth such that the blades performed at 5 mm above the bar.

As the plane sharpening then I took the polished door from an old trellis and double-sided tape stuck to it nazhdachku. Later I met the information that as a reason for sharpening is better to take the glass, but even in such I managed a good option to sharpen knives and they are perfectly planed as a solid (ash, beech) and soft wood.

bar with mounted knives placed on nazhdachku and gently forth motions to sharpen both blades at once - sharpening process itself. The process is not fast, but are easily controlled.

Sharpening in such a way to make long course, but for the changes fit well.

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Alexander.

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