How-To: Sharpen a Chisel (When You’re Serious About It)

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How-To:  Sharpen a Chisel (When You’re Serious About It)

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“Spirit is the sword and experience the sharpening stone.” – Arab Proverb

This moment of Zen brought to you by Instructables member (and um… Autodesk CEO) carlbass. [Thanks, Carl!]

This piece runs through the basics of what you need to know to keep your shop chisels sharp and ready to go.

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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