Reasonably Intelligent Maker

  Welcome to the turning world. 🙂 There is a sharpening concept I refer to as "grinder abuse". The idea is that if you make your tools from HSS (High Speed Steel such as M2, M42, CPM, etc.) you can grind the hell out of them and not worry about ruining the temper when they turn blue. When working with "old school" tool steels (also called carbon steel) such as O1, W1, 1095 and so forth, one of the cool things you can do is heat treat in your home oven or even a toaster oven. At around 400°F your metal will turn a color called "Straw" the ever lightest of yellow/browns. This takes out the hardness just enough to keep a hardened blade from being brittle, like glass. That is wonderful. With any hand stone oil, water, diamond, CBN, etc.. you would be hard pressed to rub fast enough to ever reach such a temp and so you are fine. Nor, can you manually carve wood so fast that you would reach such a temperature, unless you were some weird super-hero in a Marvel ...

 So I have seen a bunch of these. Some free and some for pay. I decided to try to see if I can do one in Inkscape. Here it is as a pdf. Queen Wheel

A while back I built a little shed to house my lawn and garden equipment, and perhaps some beekeeping stuff that was taking up too much space in the workshop. It was mostly made of scrap wood, left over posts that once held clothesline and parts from a deck that we tore down. Once it was together and the outside was closed in with OSB I purchased a roll of house wrap from Lowes and decided that although it would not serve long term without some kind of siding, it might just help in the short term.  So I don't know how anyone else puts up house wrap, but what I did was start at the bottom nearest the back and stapled the edge to the wall then rolled it out to an opening and stapled it again, cut it off and went back and added more staples. I then repeated the process with another piece slightly overlapping the previous one. Because there is a giant hole in the middle (the door), I started again from the other side, repeating the process in mirror reverse fashion. Now it is significa...

  Here is an opinion, and observation. The opinion is mine, and I claim no expertise, though I have been sharpening and using woodworking tools for more than 30 years. If you find it TL;DR then suffice it to say "honing is your friend", but otherwise read on. I think sharpen might be the wrong word. There are several things that you do to an edge of a cutting tool. Most of them are simply referred to as sharpening and that throws off the concept of frequency. 1. (Profile Grind) Upon receipt of tool one should "grind" it to their preferred profile for that tool. This would be done on lower (more coarse grits for faster cutting). Sometimes over the course if its lifetime a tool is repurposed and will be reground to a different profile in order to perform a different task. Doing this frequently will greatly reduce the life of the tool, and because of this some people will invest in multiple tools of the same design and maintain them with their preferred grind profile. ...