Review on 🔪 Enhance Woodworking Precision with Sharp Pebble Whetstones Sharpener Dual Woodworking by Todd Look

This is a well made set but with some caveats. The stones appear to be of good quality. They have a slightly rough production finish that wears down quickly to a moderately aggressive stone that seems slow to wear and offers decent feedback. Use a light touch and maintain wetting. Most of these opinions were formed with the use of the back of stones to sharpen X-Acto style carving tools and blades. With a little care and a little touch up, the X-Acto #11 tip can easily be restored to factory condition and the blade better than factory. Considering the price of these blades, just attaching your X-Acto and accessory blades makes this set a worthwhile investment. With gouges and veneers you will need a good set of whetstones to deburr the inside as this set only has a really flat convex profile and is not deep enough to accommodate many slotted profiles. The four concave grooves work well enough for the smaller grooves, but you will find yourself using the "thigh stone" method on large grooves with the back of the stone. (See Mary May's chisel sharpening video for details on this technique.) While this is a well-made, neat little kit, it's far from a "solution" to sharpening carving tools, and you might be better off with a pair of Sharp Pebble flat stones. . The stones themselves seem quite suitable for "budget" stones. The grit in the set is a bit coarse for sharpening care, with both stones appearing a bit rougher than advertised. The Red 400 is more than aggressive enough for minor reprofiling and chipping repairs, while the Blue 1000 is more akin to the versatile 800 but does a good job of getting you to the perfect edge when you ease off the pressure and "give in". ". Your turning direction to exit. This alone is sufficient for many applications, but if you want your Sloyd knife or carved chisels to be "razor sharp" you'll need at least a green bonded leather belt and perhaps a 5000+ grit polishing stone to supplement. small sentence. All in all this is a good starter kit for small tools or hobbyist knife work and goes well with the X-Acto Linoleum Carving Kit or similar small tools. If you have a new set of carving knives I would suggest buying the same flat stones and gouging with a set of sliding stones. (and a strap intended for eventual carving tools). It'll cost you more, I'm afraid, but it's about the only practical way to keep your expensive front teeth looking their best. Final word: worth the money. , but it is not a universal solution for sharpening carving tools.