Cheap home made leather honing wheel - wood carving chisels and knives
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- Опубликовано: 2 сен 2015
- How to make a leather honing wheel for sharpening wood carving chisels and knives very quickly and easily. in this video I make a leather wheel for quick and easy honing of various tools.
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Great vid. Clear, explanatory, and very easy to understand. NO useless distracting music that gets in the way of understanding.
Informative video. I made some small leather disks to work on my Dremel tool. Thanks for the idea.
Thank you Russell for this. I'm off to make my own!
+DavieMac48 Cheers Davie!
Where's there's a will there's a way. Well done and thank you.
Just found this. Every step is really well thought-out, then explained very clearly. Thank you for posting. Now I have yet another channel to binge... Cheers!
Thank you! :-)
Thank you for showing me how you made yours. Watching something being made is the best set of instruction their is. In my opinion. Thanks again. Thumbs Up!
Thank you. :-)
Great idea. I'm going to make one of these.
Thanks for posting the video, Russell. I've been thinking about doing the same thing. Looks really easy to do.
Thank you Dan :-)
Very good information. Always easier to watch something done before doing it yourself.
Why apprenticeships are so valuable.
I thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
+badalternative Thank you.
Russell Platten nice video Russell, I also order leather from (i'm guessing) the same place, very good, high quality leather. They must have a very good tannery.
Nice job on the stropping wheel. Thanks for your post.
+paulpaul1948 Thank you Paul :-)
Good, sensible stuff. You've saved a lot of people a lot of money here. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to comment. :-)
just to add to the "I bet you could do it this way" pool:
Cut the 4x4 leather squares, and center drill. glue together, and mount on spindle. then, turn the glued leather on the lathe, as though it were wood.
+Eagle Bird Knives I thought of stack cutting also. I probably would stick with the band saw jig for cutting it round.
THANK YOU RUSSEL ! IT WAS A GREAT VIDEO, I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH !! I'LL BE MAKING ONE MYSELF !!!
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Russell, thanks for making this video. Great idea
Tim White, Mississippi USA
+Tim White Thank you Tim. :-)
Great job, thanks for explaining each step. When you know very little about woodworking etc it helps lots.
+Harriot Shand Glad you liked the video Harriet. Thank you for your kind comment.
Thank you, Russell.
Hi Russell,great job on the honing wheel,made one myself similar to that and also made one with hard felt,it takes a charge of flexcut gold well and the steel sharpens really well, cheers malc
+malcolm oxley Cheers Malc.
Clear and very helpful. Thanks👍
Thank you Pete.
Love good ideas, thank you!
Cheers Howard. :-)
I did something similar but with laminated wooden disks. I put the leather around the circumference. One disk with the rough leather side out, one with the smooth. It works pretty well. I hope this did what you want.
You did a really nice job!
Cheers Jerry. :-)
I'm thinking rubber cement would be the better alternative to wood glue to bind the leather discs just because it doesn't harden like wood glue. Still a good idea. Thanks for sharing.
you mean contact cement. rubber cement won’t hold.
Thank you for that idea!
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Thank you for sharing. Great idea and easy to follow video...
Thank you. :-)
GREAT JOB RUSSELL.. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK..
+Larry Keesee Cheers Larry 🙂
a job well done sir, and thanks for sharing. i will definitely be giving that a go, a stropping wheel would be very handy indeed and I am the kinda guy that loves making things rather than buying things so this will be a nice little project.
+Doobster67 Thank you for your comment Doobster. Good name by the way!
Russell you did a Awesome Job
Cheers Gary :-)
Great idea. Thanks for the video.
+Mike McHenry Cheers Mike :-)
Contact Cement or "barge" cement (preferred) is what leatherworkers use for gluing leather together. If you can't find either, you can substitute with rubber cement. Great video!
+Steve Gilbert Thank you for your comment Steve :-)
Great video,thanks for sharing!
Thank you. :-)
Nice video and instructional. I was wanting an MDF wheel but the initial purchase is too costly. Your video brought out a nice alternative..bravo!
Glad it helped Guy! :-)
OMG the comments on here are so well thought! Amazing!
Yes, there have been some great suggestions on making the wheel and I never thought for one minute so many people would be interested in it. Thank you for such a fine comment. :-)
love it ..great and simple build ...that thing will last forever
Thank you!
i put a leather belt on ply wood wheel it slapped like crazy until it came off lol
very good tip thank you Russell.
+Joe Dov Thank you Joe.
Great ingenuity sir. Thank you
Thank you :-)
Hi Russel, well done I love the video, I am woodcarver, with obviously more money then sense as I bought a power strop, however as I got better at carving (been doing it for 10+ years now) the 4 inch strop was too narrow. Your method gave me the inspiration to build a 3x6 strop. I mounted it to a B&Q cheap as chips bench grinder ( I reversed the drive) Thanks
+Dylan Dalton Nice one Dylan! Thanks for the comment. It makes it all worthwhile when someone sends a comment like this! :-)
Russell Platten
Awesome video, Thanks. I’m going to make my own now.
I gave mine to a friend and made another. It is very handy for honing tools! :-)
hey I love the accent!!
Nice work easy to follow great idea
Regards
Steve
Thank you Steve :-)
Simple and easy that's what I like russ brilliant thanks ❤👏👍
Glad I could help Keith. Thanks for the brilliant comment! :-)
Thanks. Great idea.
+M van veen Thank you :-)
Nice. I don't have a bandsaw so I used my table mounted router which cut the discs out perfectly. Spinning them at 450 rpm seems to work good for knives.
+Dan Stump Brilliant idea with the router Dan! :-)
I mounted mine on a bench grinder and used a wooden rasp! Perfect glued a leather strop on the side. Now I'm waiting for diamond adhesive paste. Btw I cut mine with a jigsaw and once I gently pushed the rasp? Perfect! Great vids! 🙂👍👍👍
Glad it worked out! :-)
Great video..............I subscribed........................
Very informative Thank you
+eric braithwaite (snoopsy100) Thank you for the comment Eric! Glad you liked it.
Brilliant 👏 👏 thanks just what is needed, I'll make one
Glad I could help Keith! :-)
This is an awesome idea.Thank you
You are welcome Tina! :-)
Well done. Enjoyed the video. It has given me some ideas. A sharp blade is a wonderful tool.
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A friend of mine made a similar honer. He bought the leather wheel and mounted it onto a drill along with a buffer wheel. He runs it in reverse.
Brilliant!
Cheers John!
great stuff mate
Thank you. :-)
Thanks Russell definitely going to make one subscribed & liked 😁👍🏼
Thank you Mark. :-)
Thank you.
Awesome video and awesome idea
+Coyote Walking Thank you 😊
Thank you for sharing , I am wondering if I can make it smaller scale. . I don't have a laith. I will have to think a little different but thanks for sharing!
+Martha West Cheers Martha :-)
super plain speaking bloke ,with sense and clarity .
thanks tony.
Cheers Tony!
Thanks Russell good video...
Cheers Robin. :-)
Russell thank you great video simple job shown and demonstrated very well I have all the component parts and was going to buy a stropping disc. I have almost every colour of polishing compound except yellow. Grrrrr blue or brown may have to do on my knives
+martin lowe Thank you for the kind comment Martin. I have found Tormek PA-70 Honing Paste better than anything else. I prefer it to the soap type compound blocks.
Thanks Russell will look for PA-70. Have actually made one with a disc of wood arbour and a strip of leather but will try your idea when I get enough leather.
Great video, thanks. I think it's worth mentioning the risk when it runs towards you; it can smart a bit if the blade catches and flies into you, so be careful, or, better, stand on the other side so it goes away from you. I prefer the idea of leather to the mdf ones some have made, even though they are usually smaller.
Good advice! :-)
I agree with @teacheng3795 "Great vid. Clear, explanatory, and very easy to understand. NO useless distracting music that gets in the way of understanding". GREAT VIDEO!!
Thank you! :-)
I bought a leather stropping wheel from Beavercraft. It's only 3"in diameter. I've had a hard time getting it to spin true and can't get the wobble or of it. It also seems to spin a little off center. After seeing your video, I think I'm going to get a different shaft to mount the leather on so I can tighten it like you did. Good video. Thanks for making it.
Glad I could help! :-)
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Rotary strops certainly speed up the process and make life easier. I have been using a fully stitched buffing wheel to finish my wood chisels and plane irons for several years now. The only thing you have to be careful of is rolling the edge on the back of wood chisels, but you only need a light touch on the under side. Something I picked up from one of the guitar luthier channels is cockpit canopy glue for leather. It comes in small bottles, so I am not sure it would be suitable for all those leather disks, but it certainly works. Formula 560 is one of the makes, but search for canopy glue and you'll find it.
Thanks for that Trevor. The Titebond glue works too, I have had no issues since I made it. :-)
Well done, Mate. I'll do the same, now that I've seen your work.
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Hi Russell. Me again. Emailed Flexcut about cleaning the powerstrop or any strop. If it gets "lover loaded" and slick/shiny, they say you can use a paint scraper or a flat tool to just scrape back exces compound which reconditions the leather surface to better accept fresh compound. If its a shiny surface it does not accept enough compound. Hope this is of use to you. ATB. Pete.
+pete wright Thanks for that info Pete. I will give mine a clean! :-)
Good job lad.
Cheers. :-)
Russell Platten Im just getting into carving but will hit you up with a few questions soon when I get my new tools if thats ok Russell? Thanks lad. Cheers big ears. ;) Flexcut here I come....lol. Stay safe lad.
That’s cool you made your own . They are15-$20 0n Amazon . The polisher grinder sharpener machine can be dangerous . I always like t spinning away from me . I just turn it around for this and sharpen on the top . The thing about sharpening like this is it is so much quicker than using a stone for an hour . An hour is a long time to focus on precision moves one right after another and I find this to be much faster and worthwhile so I can do other things . The other thing is the blades heat up so keeping the materials cool or cooling them helps with . They work great once the edges get rounded and the polishing compound is all gooey Ed up . I clean mine with whatever sandpaper is handy but it gets HOT ! Lol thanks for the vid . Hello from America Ohio .
I use mine occasionally, it is a great way to hone knives and chisels. Hi from East Sussex! :-)
Nice one Russ. Good vid buddy
Thanks 👍
Thank you for sharing 👍👍
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I made my disc from piece of MDF, really does get knives chisels scary sharp,
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Nice job.
Thank you Jack! :-)
Hi Russell, firstly thanks for a very useful video, but can you please help me with a bit of detail I seem to have missed. When you mounted the 'rough cut' wheel on the lathe to smooth it, what did you use to take off the ragged edges? I assume it was sandpaper, but what grit did you find worked best? I'd like to know as I bought the Flexcut Powerstrop a couple of years ago but have managed to put a very deep gouge in one edge and would like to smooth it out. Many thanks, Nigel
+Nigel Paice Thank you for your comment Nigel. I used a square wood turning chisel to take of a skim from the wheel and then finished it off with 240 grit sand paper. I think sand paper will be fine for cleaning up your wheel, but you will need to have it wrapped around a square edge to ensure a nice flat finish. I would use 80, 120 and finish on 240 grit.
Very intelligent mate, very well done, thanks for sharing!!
Glad I could help! :-)
Mister universal good fellow ....
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Excellent. Well done. Subbed.
Thank you! :-)
I will be trying this says this Canadian cheap skate. Great idea
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U have sum good hand skills
thank you! :-)
Russel Nice.... Titebond is a good tip. congratulations
Thank you Said! :-)
Thanks for sharing! Is it important to glue the leather together?
Yes, the wheel would not hold together without it.
use a hole saw to get your disk faster .well it is in my case no band saw lol
Exelent video thnks..
Thank you. :-)
Nice job
Thank you! :-)
Nice job i know what im doing when ive finished painting mi house lol , thanks for showing ive liked n subd you . Greetings from Wales m8y .
nice work!
the small yellow lines of tite3 in the disc don't cause problems?
still holding after many uses?
No issues and yes, it is still holding. :-)
I use a cloth sanding belt inside out with some green compound.
Good job.
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nice job
Thank you Michael! :-)
Brilliant. AND I was the 5000th like. Thanks for sharing. I'll be making one myself.
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Hi Russell, What's the yellow polishing compound you use on the leather disc, please?
+Philip Emmans Hi Philip, it is Flexcut Gold polishing compound. I prefer Tormek PA-70 paste after trying both products. I hope his helps.
Nice project. Thanks. Is it not easy perhaps, to glue square leather pieces together and then, cut the block in circle using the same system on the saw?
It may be Marcelo, but it would be more difficult to turn a thicker piece into the blade and could be more dangerous as it would require more effort to turn. Thank you for your comment.
nicely done
Thank you Gary :-)
Would it be possible (if you don't have a band saw) to glue some squares together, and then use your drill press with a hole saw?
I think this would be fine with the right sized hole saw.
Thanks a lot for your reply! :-)
Great job. Ty
nice job, im going to make myself an mdf one for the grinder too. check it out they look very good indeed.
+Elwyn Harris Yes Elwyn, I have seen the MDF wheels, much easier to make and considerably cheaper too!
Brilliant idea! I'm gonna make this. Just curous how the Glue held up? Titebond 2 ok as a replacement coz where I am can't get the 3. Maybe Contact Cement if not.
Good video Russel. One thing I need to mention is that I would not use wood glue. I dries to hard and would leave hard spots in your strop. I would use contact cement or rubber cement. That would stay more flexible and give you a cleaner strop.
Good point regarding the glue. I just used what I had in the garage and I had used Titebond on leather before.
Great idea on how to cut out those circles. I wish I was able to think about solutions to problems that way. My brain gets stuck into "only one way to skin a cat mode" and I have a problem "thinking outside the box".
The more videos you watch on here, the more ideas you will come up with when you need to solve a problem. Thank you for taking the time to comment. :-)
Glue up the leather squares into a billet first, then use whatever size circular hole saw, or other style circular fly cutter. The pilot bit takes care of your concentric center for the arbor all in one shot. I find high speed and light repetitive presses and plenty of pulling out to allow the saw to release enough heat to keep the smoke and stink down to a bare minimum...sharp bits are important. Anyway, just thought I would chime in with another way to skin the cat. Great video! Cheers!
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Anyone who watches this, be careful not to blow the temper on you edge. These heat up your blade quickly.
Indeed, need to go way slower on that speed.
I work with leather, making diff. stuff, and I allways cut my leather with a sharp, and most importanted polished egg. As one does with the strop. Mine is just a piece leather on a piece of wood with good compound on.
- As you said, that will surve you good for a long time. And, if one strop regularly, one need not to grind the blades.
I liked the video too. I was wondering if cutting 4 inch squares and gluing them together then going corner to corner for the center and cutting one time on the band saw would work?
+Bruce Ferguson I reckon it would if you had a narrow blade on the bandsaw, but it would be difficult with a wider blade.
Russell Platten wouldn't you need the same type blade wether you cut the disks one at a time or all at once if you glued the pieces together first?
+Bruce Ferguson I think that the blade I used would struggle with the radius if the leather was thick. The leather would not flex as much and could bind and stop the blade. It may be ok, I personally would use a narrow blade that could turn in the kerf. The thin leather can flex out of your he way with the thick blade.
gotcha..... thanks for clearing that up for me.
what did you type to get hold of leather on eBay? Lovely job
Try with vegetable tanned leather 10 ounce.