I have one and I love it. It works very easily for sharpening chisels with a precise angle setting guide. You slide the chisel flat side down up a sort of shoot and the bevel edge comes in contact with the spinning underside of the disk. It will set 20, 25, 30 and 35 degree angles. You can grind a 30 degree face on a chisel then adjust to 35 and polish a micro bevel with the really fine paper.
To sharpen something wider it is a sort of free-hand job made easier by a guide bar you can fairly easily estimate the angle you need. Unless you have a big chip to grind out it doesn't take long at all to get a really good edge. I would recommend that you pay the extra for the leather surfaced honing disk so you can put a mirror finish on the edge. I have ground some of the blades of my garden chipper but for that you really want a grinder to remove enough material to remove the sorts of nicks that will acquire and probably for grinding things like lawn mower blades. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Supernaw To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:59 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Wood Sharp WS3000 Some months ago there was a discussion about how well a blind person can use the Wood Sharp to sharpen chissles and plane blade. I can't remember the conclusion. Would someone please refresh my memory or maybe add more to the discussion? I am considering the purchase of the model WS3000. Thanks, Ralph [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
