A QUICK AND EASY WAY TO SHARPEN TOOLS
What you’re about to read is one of those forehead-smackingly good ideas which has the potential to completely change how you work. It’s about sharpening—not just getting your tools sharp, but a way to efficiently keep them razor-sharp all the time. How great would that be? You’ll never again struggle through a job with a dull tool because you didn’t want to take the time to sharpen it.
DO BEVEL ANGLES MATTER?
Some people insist on a precise angle for pine, a different one for oak, another altogether for cherry, one angle for long grain, another for end grain. If you work with a lot of different woods, you'd need a hundred different planes or chisels set up with different bevels, or else you'd be regrinding your tools to nubs with the constant changes.