Professional Tool Manufacturing has introduced The Work Sharp Wood Tool Sharpener for sharpening a broad array of woodworking tools including chisels, plane irons, carving tools, spoke shaves, carving tools and lathe tools.
Designed for both woodworking hobbyists and fine woodworking professionals, Work Sharp solves several common problems associated with sharpening hand tools: inconsistent results, grinding/honing the proper edge, keeping bevel edges square and grinding the entire bevel face.
“This is a major advance in sharpening with tremendous impact on woodworkers and how they work,” explained Kevin Blodgett, Director of Marketing, Professional Tool Manufacturing. “We developed this tool to simplify basic sharpening principles, deliver consistent and repeatable results for proper angles, while keeping bevel edges square and grinding the entire bevel edge.”
Industry research has shown that woodworkers often force their way ahead with inadequately sharpened tools or send them out to be sharpened. Work Sharp reduces sharpening time dramatically, eliminates the mess and hassle of sharpening and lets you grind and sharpen with a single simple machine. Woodworkers can sharpen and get right back to work without losing momentum.
Utilizing cutting-edge technology including an air-cooled, dry-sharpening system, a tempered glass grinding wheel for adhering backed abrasives, and a powerful 1/5 hp motor with a gear reduced wheel speed of 580 RPM, Work Sharp’s sharpening port provides woodworkers with a maintenance-free, easy-to-use method that delivers a precise and repeatable bevel angles of 20, 25, 30 and 35 degrees for chisels and plan irons up to 2 inches wide.
To make this dry system effective, Work Sharp cools while it sharpens using routed airflow from the motor and a heat sink design so heat is dissipated by the sharpener instead of damaging the edge you just sharpened.
Work Sharp comes with two double-sided tempered glass wheels so you can quickly switch between 4 grits of abrasives as you move from rough shaping to honing. And when you need to replace the abrasive, just pull off the old one and lay down a new one. These six-inch adhesive backed abrasive disks are widely available or can be purchased from Work Sharp.
Work Sharp also offers an innovative Edge-Vision slotted ‘see-through’ wheel which allows you to see the edges as you sharpen them. The cost-effective package is available from Rockler.com for only $199.99 who also have an excellent video of the product on this page. It provides an affordable and dependable option to other methods and tools that retail for more than $400.
Professional Tool Manufacturing, located in Ashland, Oregon, is an industry leader in sharpening tools and technologies. For more information, visit www.worksharptools.com.
