I haven't used it and I don't own it and if you worry about sighting along this or that then you will never get anything because that is the language of the optically enabled. This too is one of the reasons I have not yet acquired those jigs. It is my feeling though that for all the fuss these things are really a lot more approximate than we would be lead to believe. The real trick is to keep the bevel constant so you don't get a convex bevel which would make the actual edge of attack way too great. Obviously, if a plane blade isn't very close to square to it's edge it will be more difficult to line up in the shoe but even a square blade needs alining in the plane which also, theoretically requires sighting along the shoe and there has never been a blind person do that ever in history.
When I worked in Dawson Creek I once had this old Sudatenland German patient who came to canada just before the war, there were a number of them settled in the area. I was complaining about having chipped a plane blade. He told me to bring it in next time and he brought a hand crank grinding wheel which he clamped to the edge of my desk and promptly ground the chip out of the blade, touched up another one and a pair of chisels and then honed them perfect with an oil stone about two and a half inches by maybe 4. He gave me the stone and I use it still. My point here is that I well remember my father having a wheel like that many years ago and me trying to use it. You only have your left hand for guiding the blade against the wheel which, doubtless is a little easier if you can see but you are only estimating the angle even if you can see because you can't observe it from overhead and your right hand is busy cranking. I am betting that a reasonably sensitive touch would aline the edge close enough as doesn't matter. Setting the angles to precisely 35 or 40 or 25 on the gauge might be more problematic but with the set-up blocks as reference one would be within a couple of degrees dead reckoning. The masters of course do it without a jig by touch and claim absolute accuracy and maybe they are right. I am pretty sure most of us could do it too only we don't have the instruction or the reliable means of verification. Besides, we are all waiting for you to buy, test and inform us first. I am thinking I am going to buy me either a Tormek or a Jet. The Tormek rep offered to take a day and teach me how to use the Tormek down in Kitchener which might have been sales talk but I have thought it might be interesting to get a couple of hotel rooms and get a few of us together for a sharpening lesson and maybe over to Stratford for some Shakespeare some week-end this summer or fall. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] sharpening tools >I was just poking around on Lee Valley and am wondering what the Veritas > Sharpening system looks like. It is two parts, a honing guide and an > angle jig. So, does this just sit above, or in front of, a sharpening > stone? Does it look like a blind person could use it? It talks about > sighting along a registration line to keep a narrow blade properly > aligned. > > Has anyone used this system? > > thanks. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
