Veritas low angle spoke shave blade

[sbachner]

The Veritas low angle spoke shave blade is very narrow, too narrow for the straight blade jig.  And I couldn't accomadate it on the tool reset either.  I sharpened it by hand, but I was curious how to do it using the Tormek?

Thanks,
SteveB.

[Jeff Farris]

I grind very small spokeshave blades by just catching their back edge in the front of the SVH-60 straight edge jig, and squaring the edge of the blade to the jig with a small engineer's square.

[sbachner]

Thanks Jeff.

I tried that but the castings(?) on the bottom of the jig contacted the wheel when the jig was adjusted to the blades bevel angle.  I only tried it with the tool rest in the vertical position.  I'll double check it and try it on the other side of the machine.

I may just build a simple holding jig also.

Thanks,
SteveB.

[Jeff Farris]

You only need a very small bite on the back edge of the blade.  I can get the Lie-Nielsen small spokeshave blades in with no problem.  I don't know how they compare in size to the Veritas.

[sbachner]

Here are a few pictures Jeff.  First the blade itself,



The rectangular section is 3/8" wide by 2 1/4".  The overall blade width is 3/4".

Here's the bladed mounted in the jig,



and here's the jig on the Tormek,



I just realized that's not a good pic since you can't see the tool rest.  But, the tool rest is down all the way and the bevel is not aligned.

I'm probably goofing something up  .  Thanks for helping.

[Jeff Farris]

You're not goofing anything up.  That blade is way too short for the straight edge jig.  It is much shorter than the Lie-Nielsen blade.  

Do you have the knife jig?  That might work.

[sbachner]

I do have the knife jig and now I have an excuse to take it out of the box  .

If I can't get it to work with one of the Tormek jigs, I probably build a simple jig.

Thanks for your timely help Jeff  .

SteveB.