Did I wreck my Honing Wheel?

[mGuitars]

Herman: I was referring to a "Scraper-Plane Blade" vs your typical card-scraper.  You're supposed to prep a scraper-plane blade with honed 45-degree bevel instead of a 90-degree edge.
Then you progressively roll the tip of the bevel further that direction to a hook like you would on a card scraper. 
Alternatively, you could also set up the blade for 90-degrees for wild-grained woods.  Then you'd have the higher cutting angle with less material removal; like a bench plane.
I have my scraper-plane blade set up with 90 on one edge and 45 on the opposite so I have both to choose.  I then can install the blade whichever way is needed.


ionut: My method was aggressive, but there was so much oil saturated in there. I first tried the side-edge of a tool, but it just squished the leather and would only draw some of the oil out.  I had to slice off the saturated leather to get the clean area. Doing it freehand was making me nervous about either tearing the leather (which happened anyway) or the scraper getting ripped from my hands and cutting me up real bad.  With the jigs on-hand and that extra plane-blade, that was what I came up with to get to where I needed.

[Ken S]

mGuitars,

I knew an old refinisher.  He was a real expert in his craft.  He told me that when he was apprenticing, his mentor gave him a piece of bird's eye maple and tole him to scrape it "until the eyes popped out".  He scraped and scraped, and finally told his mentor it could not be done.  The mentor was undaunted, and told him to keep scraping.  With much cursing, he continued.  To his great surprise, the eyes finally popped.

Scraping is a valuable, underutilized skill.

Ken

[Ern]

FWIW I over-oiled my wheel too before first use but just kept wiping with rags and paper towel.  Took lots of wipes with days between for oil to rise to the surface. 

[Ken S]

Good reply, Ern.

[mGuitars]

Here's an update:

I got back from vacation and have had a chance to work with my T7.  I found I am now able to get a polished and honed edge without the hand-strop.  After I confirmed I could get to that point, I then tried a couple of swipes on my hand-strop and still get a nicer edge.

I'm sure after I get some more practice with the wheel that I'll be able to get to the same point, so it looks like it's all working.


I also reread my earlier post and it looks like I sound a little defensive towards ionut.  I'm sorry if it came off that way.  I only meant: what I did seemed like a good idea at the time.

[ionut]

If the honing wheel removes the burr and polishes the edge the wheel is back in good shape, as you will continue to use it will become more effective, try to not let it dry and become rock hard.
If you use a finer compound on the hand strop you may get a better edge, if you don't it is just a matter of your honing procedure that will become eventually better or the condition of the wheel.
Regarding your defensiveness I don't remember to have attacked you , if you procedure does the job that's the important thing, I was just a little worried I didn't describe my suggestion properly and confused you.

Ionut