re: Sharpening

I’ve only had my water stones for about a week now. But, I learned quickly that the stones get black marks from the tools, so I lap the flattening stone and the good stone together under running water. When the black marks are gone, I consider the stone to be flat. I’m very pleased with them. I use a strop with chromium-oxide about every 15 minutes when I’m chiseling. I just glanced my finger with the chisel yesterday and it was bleeding. When they say “scary sharp” they mean it. The tool worked beautifully. I did 30 lap joints yesterday by hand and I believe that I would be done before my competitor got his router table set up.