Thread: Knife Questions

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

I had a set of those coloured diamond blades once but I wore them out sharpening chisels and plane irons so went back to the trusty old oil stone

After you used the diamond sharpeners on your chisels, did you do anything else to the chisel edge?

I remember the boss of the carpentry division of the Ministry of Works telling me that sometimes a chisel edge can be improved (work-hardened maybe?) by peening it with a hammer.