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.
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.
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.
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.
Here are a few pictures Jeff. First the blade itself,
(http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/8124/img2758hj8.jpg)
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,
(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3492/img2755wi4.jpg)
and here's the jig on the Tormek,
(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3139/img2754wa6.jpg)
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.
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.
I do have the knife jig and now I have an excuse to take it out of the box ;D.
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.