The cutting edge blunts quickly on tough boatbuilding timbers, and a blunt tool is the most dangerous on the bench. For sharpening plane irons and wide chisels the width of the primary bevel itself ...

Tools lose their edge and become dull. That’s a fact of their existence. But it’s also a fact that they need not stay that way. Sharpening nearly anything, from a shovel to a putty knife to a plane to ...