Sharpening With A Belt Sander?

[gtwister09]

SurgiSharp carries the leather belt for the 1X30. A couple of places where you can find these is USAKnifeMakers and Woodworker' Supply. Make sure you remove the leather belt from the sander. If there is tension on it then it will stretch.

The Scotchbrite pad is also a trick that glass/sandpaper sharpeners use to create a Moran edge as well. I started out with the Scotchbrite pad on the 4X36 also but found an insert called the Belt Lift that does the same thing. I still use the 1X30 a lot or I should say that the neighborhood uses my 1X30 a lot.

Regards,

Ben

[Chef niloc]

I get most of my belts from , they have a great selection. The leather belt they sell is the surgisharp.

http://www.trugrit.com/belts1.

For the belt I like to use a green chrome diamond mix compound that I made my self. I took a bar of green compound melted it, added the diamond dust and stirred it till it got to thick to stir. Then I stuffed it into a Papper towl tube and let it cool over night. the diamond make the job go quicker and on harder steel, I also think that diamond compounds give a better "feel" to a cuting edge.

http://www.diamondte...2_4_micron.html

This is the best green compound I have found, 100x better then the barkriver stuff

http://japanwoodworker.com/product.asp?s=JapanWoodworker&pf_id=01.098&dept_id=13100

Edited November 22, 2011 by Chef niloc