Tape #3
"Sharpening"
(2 hours, 10 min.)

This tape covers American maple and all its different figure patterns, both hard and soft. In the Jargon Corner he demonstrates how to cope an inside crown corner joint.

In the master craftsman section, we visit Mike Gilmartin, who takes us on a tour of his shop and discusses the history of his work with examples of his furniture. He describes in detail how he makes sculptural plywood furniture from prototypes to finished pieces. He shows us how it is done. He explains how he advises his customers how to take care of his furniture.

In the "Save Your Money" section, you will learn how to sharpen your own carbide router bits.

In the sharpening feature, Woodguy shows how to put razor-sharp edges on all your woodworking tools, chisels, carving tools, plane blades, knives, scissors, spokeshaves and scraper blades. Sharpening by hand with simple inexpensive tools is explained first and machine sharpening is covered next.

 

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